Usually means: In a somber or grim manner.
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  1. darkly: Merriam-Webster
  2. darkly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darkly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. darkly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Darkly, darkly: Wordnik
  6. darkly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. darkly: Wiktionary
  8. darkly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. darkly: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Darkly, darkly: Dictionary.com
  11. Darkly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. darkly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. darkly: Rhymezone
  14. darkly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. darkly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. darkly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. darkly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. darkly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. darkly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkly: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkly: Medical dictionary

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  1. darkly: Idioms

(Note: See dark as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
adverb:  With a dark appearance.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
adverb:  (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
adjective:  (chiefly poetic) Relating to darkness or obscurity.

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