darkish red.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a darkish color.    From Dictionary.com. 

A kind of darkish sort of respectful Johnnie stood without.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories] Reference

It was still 'darkish' at 6 am this morning, the temperature was 56 degrees, and the sky was brooding and winterish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiraeth] Reference

"This -- this is rather a darkish place, isn't it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck] Reference

Tho 'the times remain darkish, your men may be sparkish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference

Though the times remain darkish, young men may be sparkish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The cake was of a darkish colour; but good wholesome bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

The sky had clouded over somewhat, and it was darkish as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

Soames could see his pale tongue passing over his darkish lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Let] Reference

These are the adults, darkish up here and light in the other end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

The animal had small eyes, and was of darkish color, almost black.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference

Then out came the man himself, in a darkish suit and a blueish tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave will slay the Goliath-esque government] Reference

Not a full-fledged mustache: only a few darkish hairs above my upper lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

“Can you speak Welsh?” said a darkish man with black, bristly hair and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

Sometimes he becomes fair, sometimes darkish, sometimes dark of complexion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Maize stalks sliced lengthwise often reveal nodes that are a darkish brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

My hair is darkish brown, which is true of billions of males of Terran stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncharted Stars]

The water in which his arms were plunged was quite black, the soap-froth was darkish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

And they were all darkish as rocks and always musty, and procured from the sides of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva] Reference

Rugel had a huge cleft darkish scar across his lip, and there were two bands on his cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference

On all sides the darkish-green water was spouting from the holes and cuts in the lake bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America] Reference

But that darkish complexion and wide amused grin veering on the crazy … There was no mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

I'm fair-skinned in the depths of winter, but I tan very easily and am darkish by early spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Mailbox] Reference

Their faces were darkish, they had flat noses, and their close-cropped hair was straight and black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

And he was of a darkish hue, had red eyes, carried a noose in his hand, and was dreadful to behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

The trees on the wood-edge were a darkish, brownish green in the full light — for it was the end of August.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fox] Reference

Holding in one hand a glass of water, the doctor handed Alfred a lump of darkish color, ordering the boy to swallow it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

But those eyes were of a darkish blue colour, their glance was keen and vivid, and the whole face was 'not unpleasing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Knox] Reference

This Arjuna of the darkish hue of blue clouds, and unequalled amongst men sleepeth on the ground like an ordinary person!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

And just at his feet, below the knoll, was a darkish bog, where globe flowers stood breathless still on their slim stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

Treasurer, and return with him; but it grew darkish, and I was forced to walk back, so I walked nine miles in all; and Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

It was written on long ruled foolscap on rather darkish blue paper in a pale blue ink, and it needed young eyes to decipher it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Slowly and slowly the interior of the eggs assumes a darkish hue, tinging the whole mass so much that it is then termed "black spat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Slowly and slowly the interior of the eggs assumes a darkish hue, tinging the whole mass so much that it is then termed “black spat.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference