darkly Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adverb without light
in darkness.
- the river was sliding darkly under the mist
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adverb in a dark glowering menacing manner
- he stared darkly at her
WordNet
Dark"ly adverb
Definitions
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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.
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With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.