blackly
[ blak-lee ]
adverb
darkly; gloomily.
wickedly: a plot blackly contrived to wreak vengeance.
angrily: blackly refusing to yield to reason.
Origin of blackly
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How to use blackly in a sentence
One blackly funny screed in the book is directed at Harry and David's gift baskets.
By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold Bindloss"Sure it's a word I'd like to have with you, young man," he growled, frowning blackly.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. StandishThere's just one thing I'd like to know, Houston thought blackly.
The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)Jack regarded Dick blackly for the fraction of a second; then he burst into a laugh, and clapped him on the shoulder.
Love in a Cloud | Arlo Bates
He felt himself in one way innocent, but he felt himself in another way blackly guilty.
The Regent | E. Arnold Bennett
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