dank
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Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
A dank, earthy odor hung in the air, as if mounds of fresh pencil shavings had been scattered over a newly excavated farm plot.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
These are the thoughts running through my mind at 3:30 a.m. in a dank basement on a dance floor my friends and I love to live on.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
She adds: "It's dark, it's dank… it's perfect. And this just became another one of those opportunities for us to embrace and say, 'let's go'."
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024
Of that legendary library, the most that survives today is a dank and forgotten cellar of the Sera- peum, the library annex, once a temple and later reconsecrated to knowledge.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing dank
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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