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Bluntly plain
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stark
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Word definitions for stark in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sharp/stark/strong contrast (= very great ) ▪ There is a sharp contrast between the type of people who read the two newspapers. a stark choice (= a choice between two unpleasant things that you must make ) ...
Usage examples of stark.
Today, in the dark tangy-wood-scented bedroom, Ambler pinned her to the stark oak bed and pressed into herhard, hard.
Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
Willy, Granny and McKay watched a line of Benji warriors advance, stark naked, red paint on their faces like great bleeding wounds.
More carefully, she removed a series of branchlets that obscured the stark grandeur of the juniper.
In this nadir of civilization, this wide- craving for the savage and the stark, this night of spirit, there rose to power the basest and hitherto t despised of human types, the hooligan and the gun-man, who recognized no values but personal dominance, whose vengeful aim was to trample the civilization that spurned them, and to rule for brigandage alone a new gangster society.
She stared down into his amazingly potent eyes and issued her stark, excruciating demand.
She had been struggling to control the tremors ever since she had taken Starks call at Exotica Erotica.
She had her personal retinue and her honor guards all mantled in stark black.
Stark was on his feet, staring through the window behind his desk, when Maro arrived.
He was a strong man with an austere command of himself, and when he had to face death he divested himself of all that could palliate the suffering, and stood up to it with a stark resolution which was more Roman than Christian.
Stark noticed anything was wrong, Willard being far too shrewd to ever complain that Prew was slow.
Stark said noncommittally, with a reluctant, but real understanding that made Prew so warm inside he forgot that it was Stark who told him Willard would not bother him.
Stark said, handing him the last of the pans that they had got through fast, so incredibly fast Prew could not believe that they were done, was almost reluctant they were done, in the warmth of grateful friendliness he felt for the other.
Even Stark noticed the gloominess of no talking and he came around to Prew to ask what had happened upstairs to cause such a profound dismalness.
But Prew was glad Stark had picked him to ask and, remembering what Stark had done this morning, he would have told him anyway.