dusky
IPA: dˈʌski
noun
- A dusky shark.
- A dusky dolphin.
- A dusky grouse.
adjective
- Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
- Having a shade of color that is rather dark.
- (dated, literary) Dark-skinned.
- Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration.
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Examples of "dusky" in Sentences
- I guess it's okay to say "dusky" as a euphemism for "darky."
- I sang till it got kind of dusky, and then I left my house for the last time.
- There was a kind of dusky brownish-green parrot, too, which the scientific call a Nestor.
- The country, England and India alike, are so satisfied with my rule over what I may, perhaps without offence, call our dusky
- But the whole season has been filled with earthy colors, such as dusky blues at Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors 's mauves and dove grays.
- He picked up the term from African-American ( "dusky" he called them) stable hands at the Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans, probably on January 14, 1920.
- The sun was pouring down a yellow autumnal ray into the square of the cloisters; beaming upon a scanty plot of grass in the centre, and lighting up an angle of the vaulted passage with a kind of dusky splendor.
- Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life.
- They seemed to have the contrary effect, making him irritable; and though he made up his mind to watch the stars peer out through the opalescent sky -- he did not call it opalescent, for the simple word dusky took its place -- even their soft light had no effect upon him, and to come to the result at once the would-be sleeper gave it up at last for a bad job.
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