adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
mutter
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Brother Salvator Rivera cleared up the untouched dishes at nine P.M., muttering darkly about the waste of food.
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He glared back ferociously so they reverted to the cakes, muttering darkly .
say
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Nora always feared the worst.-From experience, she says darkly .
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Feels looked depressed and said darkly he was sure Saladino was a Republican.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her eyes turned darkly serious as she began to talk about her troubled past.
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Sam was a darkly handsome young man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.
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In 1943, it was a darkly dangerous, Kafka-like venture into the ugly opportunities of total war.
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In an undergraduate photograph, his darkly handsome face has an air of earnest innocence.
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The devastating thing about him is that he has those darkly glowing brown eyes like yours.
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The light filtering in was enough to reveal a darkly gleaming surface of water, turbulent, continually rising.
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The model came in with the cups of tea, still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes.
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The strong tendons in his darkly tanned hand sprang into relief as he lifted the pot.