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blackly

Adverb

Meaning

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them. Henry James

Always compelling, often poignant, and at times even blackly witty, this is an absolutely unforgettable novel. Source: Internet

A trio of American art students are trapped at a high-price, top-secret retreat where wealthy clients satisfy their bloodlust in this terrifying, blackly comic sequel from director Eli Roth, starring Lauren German, Bijou Phillips and Heather Matarazzo. Source: Internet

Deep, for the most part, engages with the world in a blackly comedic way, walking into the girl’s locker rooms on a dare “to see what would happen,” running away from home (but in the wrong direction, d’oh!). Source: Internet

A large bluff loomed blackly on their left. Source: Internet

"Harrowing at times and blackly comic at others, the author’s first collection could become for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts what Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is for the Vietnam War." Source: Internet

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