dusky
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Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Three of her dusky, jazz-infused soul songs are in Spotify's Viral Top 50.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
What I was really craving, I realized, was the dusky, spiced intensity of another fall icon: apple butter.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025
Twelve yellow candles in bronze candelabras cast a dusky light over the girl.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing dusky
Lights Out: Synonyms for "Dark"
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I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018
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