Synonyms for shades of
shades of

Princeton's WordNet

1. shades ofnoun

   something that reminds you of someone or something

   "aren't there shades of 1948 here?"

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1. Dr. Laura Schlessinger:

   When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior

3. Jesse Eisenberg:

   I think if you look at some of the more nasty, political discourse in at least our country today, you'd see shades of that.

4. Addison:

   A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

5. Karen Fleming-Ginn:

   Typically, these are people who are educated, they can see shades of gray a little bit better, they are not going to be black and white, they might have more of a sense of mercy.