darklydark‧ly /ˈdɑːkli $ ˈdɑːrk-/ adverb 
- Her eyes turned darkly serious as she began to talk about her troubled past.
- Sam was a darkly handsome young man.
- He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.
- In 1943, it was a darkly dangerous, Kafka-like venture into the ugly opportunities of total war.
- In an undergraduate photograph, his darkly handsome face has an air of earnest innocence.
- The devastating thing about him is that he has those darkly glowing brown eyes like yours.
- The light filtering in was enough to reveal a darkly gleaming surface of water, turbulent, continually rising.
- The model came in with the cups of tea, still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes.
- The strong tendons in his darkly tanned hand sprang into relief as he lifted the pot.
VERB► mutter· Brother Salvator Rivera cleared up the untouched dishes at nine P.M., muttering darkly about the waste of food.· He glared back ferociously so they reverted to the cakes, muttering darkly.
► say· Nora always feared the worst.-From experience, she says darkly.· Feels looked depressed and said darkly he was sure Saladino was a Republican.
► darkly funny/humorous/comic- The show is a darkly comic look at medicine, money and morality.
- Social Blunders, which follows the romantic misadventures of 33-year-old Sam Callahan, is a darkly comic romp through heartache.
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Fred scowled darkly at her.2having a dark colour: