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DARKLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without light
Example:
the river was sliding darkly under the mist
Synonyms:
darkly; in darkness
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a dark glowering menacing manner
Example:
he stared darkly at her
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dark (showing a brooding ill humor)
Context examples:
As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, complaining of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer, often very pathetically worded, and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations—the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The milkman, after shaking his head at her darkly, released her chin, and with anything rather than good-will opened his can, and deposited the usual quantity in the family jug.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of course, he smiled darkly at their delusion, but passed it by with the sad superiority of one who knew that his fidelity like his love was unalterable.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Her low hull lifted and rolled to windward on a sea; her canvas loomed darkly in the night; her lashed wheel creaked as the rudder kicked; then sight and sound of her faded away, and we were alone on the dark sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Gulpidge darkly nodded—“was referred to him, his answer was, “Money, or no release.””
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Laurence and his grandson dined with them, also Mr. Brooke, at whom Jo glowered darkly, to Laurie's infinite amusement.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproachable bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three buttons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
