murky
adjective
dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
Example Sentences
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Such daylight as followed was dim; for here as the Mountain drew near the air was ever mirky, while out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Yer might be roundin' the Isle o' Dogs on a mirky night.
From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Julia McCune Flory
Then came Upon her spirit sadness, as if blame Unuttered breathed through those remembered glades And touched the odors moist ’mong mirky shades.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier
When the water above his head was so opaque that he could not distinguish anything save a dull mirky lightness, he struck out downstream.
From The Buttoned Sky by Geoff St. Reynard
Likelier, it had but been relegated to some mirky recess of the shop...
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
