darkly

Example Sentences

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While darkly amusing, this is genuinely dangerous; movements that believe themselves to be comprehensively infiltrated tend to radicalize further and faster.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

I often joked darkly that I was a cat with only so many lives left.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

The New York Times raved about the darkly comic novel, “startling in its spare beauty,” and the quarter-life crisis treatment of a parent’s Alzheimer’s disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“People don’t always stay where you put ’em, miss,” he replied darkly.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood