Adverb
without hope
Source: WordNetAtticus---"... said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep. Harper Lee
he wondered bleakly Source: Internet
It sees Dylan mix gritty blues with folksy storytelling, his signature raspy voice delivering lyrics that switch between bleakly haunting and darkly humorous. Source: Internet
In her wrenching, austere, bleakly comic works, the world — interior and exterior — is always, already burning. Source: Internet
"Law & Order," with its clockwork plots of social and psychic blight that end bleakly or ambiguously, has entered rerun eternity. Source: Internet
His first rough model was of Gotham Plaza, a bleakly futuristic and oppressively urban sendup of Rockefeller Center. Source: Internet