1.
[syn: darkly, in darkness]
2. in a dark glowering menacing manner;
- Example: "he stared darkly at her"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Darkly \Dark"ly\, adv.
1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely;
dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
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What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
--Dryden.
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so softly dark and darkly pure. --Byron.
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2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
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Looking darkly at the clerguman. --Hawthorne.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
darkly
adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the
mist" [syn: darkly, in darkness]
2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at
her"