shadowy
adjective
resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc..
shadowiness
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a word derived from
shadowy.
Example Sentences
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In the five years that followed, Polachek and Wimberly parted ways with Pfenning and released 2012’s Something, digging deeper into their 80s pop obsession with added shadowiness and gothic murder ballads.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2016
In the vast sanctuary of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, with the lights dimmed to a sepulchral shadowiness, the music seemed as simmering and enveloping as a primordial ritual.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2015
Amidst the dry silence and shadowiness that had come over the world, he even kept a voice and some solidity.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
In them lay a faint shadowiness like the memory of shed tears; but sweeping over that and blotting it out he saw a look which struck him like a blow.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
He stroked the narrow hand and gazed into the shadowiness.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
