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baleful
The Golden Notebook

The sun was a baleful orange colour over the yellow dusty expanse.

—p.390 FREE WOMEN: 3 (353) by Doris Lessing
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abstemious

Stalin sipped his tea abstemiously, nodding as he listened.

—p.291 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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desultory

The talk became desultory, I offered to make tea, everyone was pleased that the meeting was going to end.

—p.288 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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variegated

the overall feeling this expanse of fabric gave was of redness, a sort of variegated glowing red

—p.284 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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peremptory

She thrust the glass at Anna, and said peremptorily: 'Fill it.'

—p.268 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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