Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a black or dark appearance; darkly; atrociously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
black manner;darkly orgloomily
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Examples
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The memory stone still recalled blackly that it had been told to be a road.
Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000
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The signature was extended in full, with the surname blackly underlined.
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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“You fight like a charr”—Rytlock laughed blackly—“though you fly like a grawl.”
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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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.
Issue 0.039 z0mbieastronaut 2009
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Here and there, sun glanced off water, and slick surfaces shone blackly orange in the morning light.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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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.
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor – review 2012
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“You fight like a charr”—Rytlock laughed blackly—“though you fly like a grawl.”
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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“You fight like a charr”—Rytlock laughed blackly—“though you fly like a grawl.”
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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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.
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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.
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