Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With a black or dark appearance; darkly; atrociously.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
Examples
“The memory stone still recalled blackly that it had been told to be a road.”
Ship Of Destiny
“The signature was extended in full, with the surname blackly underlined.”
“What I loved most about this book were the character portraits, as Sage has a genius for taking ostensibly repulsive people and making them human in a blackly amusing way.”
““You fight like a charr”—Rytlock laughed blackly—“though you fly like a grawl.””
“He has also written a blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It ..., aptly dedicated to Robert Bloch, and the suspense novels 7 Steps to Midnight and Hunted Past Reason.”
“Nottingham Contemporary, to 11 MarRobert ClarkDavid Shrigley has achieved world fame thanks to his blackly funny greetings cards, skewering mankind's follies with scrappy felt-tipped cartoons.”
“Subtly, the book knits us into its blackly apocalyptic sensibility, so that even those stories not dealing specifically with the coming flood carry a shiver of dread.”
The Guardian: This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor – review
“Here and there, sun glanced off water, and slick surfaces shone blackly orange in the morning light.”
“Referring to the communist dictatorship as "the most heartless and brutal totalitarian state ever created," Brügger and his comedians repeatedly make fools of the authorities in this blackly satirical, poignant and insightful documentary.”
The Huffington Post: Govindini Murty: The Cinema of Liberty: The Top 10 Pro-Freedom Films of 2011
“Referring to the communist dictatorship as "the most heartless and brutal totalitarian state ever created," Brügger and his comedians repeatedly make fools of the authorities in this blackly satirical, poignant and insightful documentary.”
The Huffington Post: Govindini Murty: The Cinema of Liberty: The Top 10 Pro-Freedom Films of 2011
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black phrases/words
Tolkien worked in the black section
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Malcolm-Hex
Words where 'black' has a negative connotation.
The awareness of this has been more publically discussed since the 60's, however with the 2008 presidental race, I am curious if any of ...black sheep, blacklist, blackmail, blackball, black hat, black mark, black day, black magic, black market, blackhole, black monday, black comedy and 65 more...
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