grey area
An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy or ill-defined.
It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.
adj
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.
This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
verb
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.
noun
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey.
Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.