Are you trying to hyphenate blues? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century Has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes |
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A state of depression He had a bad case of the blues |
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Turn blue |
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Of the color intermediate between green and violet Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky October's bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson A blue flame Blue haze of tobacco smoke |
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Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) A ragged blue line |
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Filled with melancholy and despondency Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face Gloomy predictions A gloomy silence Took a grim view of the economy The darkening mood Lonely and blue in a strange city Depressed by the loss of his job A dispirited and resigned expression on her face Downcast after his defeat Feeling discouraged and downhearted |
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Characterized by profanity or cursing Foul-mouthed and blasphemous Blue language Profane words |
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Suggestive of sexual impropriety A blue movie Blue jokes He skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details A juicy scandal A naughty wink Naughty words Racy anecdotes A risque story Spicy gossip |
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Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy An aristocratic family Aristocratic Bostonians Aristocratic government A blue family Blue blood The blue-blooded aristocracy Of gentle blood Patrician landholders of the American South Aristocratic bearing Aristocratic features Patrician tastes |
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Morally rigorous and strict The puritan work ethic Puritanic distaste for alcohol She was anything but puritanical in her behavior |
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Causing dejection A blue day The dark days of the war A week of rainy depressing weather A disconsolate winter landscape The first dismal dispiriting days of November A dark gloomy day Grim rainy weather |
| noun | black music, African-American music, folk song, folksong, folk ballad
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| noun | blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours, depression |
| noun | blue, blueness, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
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| noun | blue, clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear |
| noun | blue, organization, organisation |
| noun | blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder, sky |
| noun | bluing, blueing, blue, dye, dyestuff |
| noun | amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal, amobarbital |
| noun | blue, lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
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