Crossword clues for darkly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Darkly \Dark"ly\, adv.
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With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
--Dryden.so softly dark and darkly pure.
--Byron. -
With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
Looking darkly at the clerguman.
--Hawthorne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 To appear as dark. 2 (context figuratively English) mysterious 3 faintly seen in the dark.
WordNet
adv. without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist" [syn: in darkness]
in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at her"
Usage examples of "darkly".
Delaware, darkly aflash, like polished steel in the slanting sunlight.
The man aims for that rapidly vanishing afterglow, alone on a darkly painted sea, a single, tiny figure chasing a sun that has already deserted him.
Her hair was blonder than God had ever intended, and her skin was darkly and evenly tanned which made her perfect teeth seem even whiter when she smiled.
And how darkly handsome Capa was in this picture, the strong masculine features, the thick black brows and hair, the smoldering dark eyes, the seductive mouth all added up to one helluva knockout of a guy.
Darkly, Cavin rubbed his knuckles across his chin and thought about what Jana had told him.
Al darkly, as he telekinized himself to the combox, after a cautious look to see that there were no medics around.
Al darkly, as he telekinized him- to the combox, after a cautious look to see that there were no medics around.
He saw Rimmer Dall smile darkly, looming above them both from within a vortex of images.
Beau was handsomely garbed in a darkly subdued navy-and-gray plaid frock coat, white shirt and cravat, high-buttoned waistcoat that matched the gray in his coat, and darker gray trousers with straps fastened beneath black ankle-boots.
Gazing out upon the river, he clamped his hands behind him again and stood with his long, darkly garbed legs splayed in a rigid stance, his polished boots planted firmly apart as Cerynise quietly began packing her belongings for her move to another cabin.
A friend of mine took hasheesh once, and said Just as he fell asleep he had a dream,-- Though with his eyes wide open,-- And felt, or saw, or knew himself a part Of marvelous slowly-wreathing intricate patterns, Plane upon plane, depth upon coiling depth, Amazing leaves, folding one on another, Voluted grasses, twists and curves and spirals-- All of it darkly moving .
I drank in his sexily messed-up hair and his darkly tanned forearms, all I could think was that, bad as it had been, that whole thing with the lightning and Colonel Jenkins and all, it had actually been worth it, because it had brought me the hottest Hottie of them all, Rob.
More lovesick layabouts, he thought darkly, and rose to send them on their way, but paused when Kate and her fairy godmother, looking very pleased with themselves, entered the kitchen.
Everyone was covertly watching Charrel, looking even more troubled than usual, sitting at one end of the table and poking darkly at his food - and Oni, sitting nearby, her eyes fixed on him.
I saw the poor, and the degraded, and the racked, and the priest-ridden, tillers and peoplers of the soil, which made the substance beneath the glittering and false surface,--the body of that vast empire, of which I had hitherto beheld only the face, and THAT darkly, and for the most part covered by a mask!