DUSKILY

Etymology

Adverb

duskily (comparative more duskily, superlative most duskily)

In a dusky manner.

Source: Wiktionary


Dusk"i*ly, adv.

Definition: In a dusky manner. Byron.

DUSKY

Dusk"y, a.

1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.

2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.

4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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