blackly
Americanadverb
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darkly; gloomily.
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wickedly.
a plot blackly contrived to wreak vengeance.
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angrily.
blackly refusing to yield to reason.
Etymology
Origin of blackly
Example Sentences
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A well-built, blackly comic morality play for which he stayed behind the camera, it’s among both his less metafictional endeavors and his most conventionally absorbing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Like a movie DJ, Kandhari is flexing a pulpy mood of big-city dislocation, building a trippy, jarring and blackly funny experience out of a city’s stray colors, sounds and personalities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
The film, a blackly comic feminist revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan, was one of the most talked about movies of 2020.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023
They run the gamut from blackly funny to apocalyptic, with a few surprisingly cheerful stops along the way.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2021
Lower down there were great pillared arches, yawning blackly like the mouths of railway tunnels.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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