Crossword clues for bleakly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bleak \Bleak\ (bl[=e]k), a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl[=a]c, bl[=ae]c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl[=e]k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. bl[=i]can to shine; akin to OHG. bl[=i]chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. fle`gein to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to shine, and E. flame. [root]98. Cf. Bleach, Blink, Flame.]
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Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
--Wordsworth.At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.
--Longfellow. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. [1913 Webster] -- Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. -- Bleak"ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. In a bleak manner.
WordNet
adv. without hope; "he wondered bleakly"
Usage examples of "bleakly".
Now, as he stood before her, naked torso gleaming in the candlelight, muscles rippling, eyes afire with their ebony fury, she was bleakly sorry.
Once, near the Harz mountains, I had been walking bleakly all day through a mizzle of rain.
She took some deep breaths, dearly willing herself to be calm as she removed something like a tiny plectrum from the headset and surveyed it bleakly.
Every few seconds I burped bleakly, and waited for that tooth to nut me in the face.
The unadjusted stare bleakly at the smiles, at the little buttons, and wonder what has happened to everybody.
Pandora headed downstairs, leaving Titus rummaging through his wardrobe, bleakly aware that unless he appeared at the jetty fully dressed, his sister was going to be treated to the sight of him sporting legs hairier that Tarantellas.
Talis said bleakly, thinking of his brother, Burne, younger than Talis at the time, watching their father die.
Every few seconds I burped bleakly, and waited for that tooth to nut me in the face.
Their father sat in the waiting room for hours, and he looked bleakly at Olivia when she finally came to tell him Victoria was sleeping.
She was finding it increasingly difficult to force herself to acknowledge that Katie and Silas were lovers, and no wonder, she reflected bleakly as she prepared for bed.
They continued riding, bleakly and silently, until hunger finally made them stop on the crest of a hill fringed by tall trees with dry, spadelike leaves.
My mother would despair, Meadows thought bleakly, and Terry would bust a gut.
I looked bleakly at the dancing girl, still trapped in the cocktail glass, and thought of Louise, alias Anenome, tortured to a death her religion would not let her come back from.
Bleakly Kingsbury thought of front-page headlines and multimillion-dollar lawsuits and minimum-security prisons with no driving range.
Minnum stared bleakly at the sleety rain bouncing off the stone cistern in the center of the courtyard of the Museum of False Memory.