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
Set against a decaying London, this glittering and blackly comic novel is a murder mystery about a murder that hasn’t happened yet.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2023
This blackly comic horror riff is heavy on the social satire and sprinkled with scares, as Reijn has intelligently pulled together and reinterpreted traditional horror tropes in order to send up the youth of today.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
I toy with shouting some tidbit more—some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex—but my heart’s not in it.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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