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Definition of dusky in English: duskyadjectiveduskiest, duskier ˈdʌskiˈdəski 1Darkish in colour. Example sentencesExamples - The old cafes are still local favorites, but now it's also possible to watch a dusky red sunset filtered through a mellow golden Chardonnay at several very good restaurants.
- Its paints are quite chalky, which gives a softness that means you could venture into greens or dusky reds without making the hallway feel dark.
- It is similar to the outdoors Red Hot Poker but its colour, a dusky pink, is much less aggressive.
- The dusky red grass grew in abundance, thicker and shorter than before.
- Organic tones predominate - pond greens and dusky browns mixed with occasional violets and reds.
- The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
- Colour is important from dusky pastels through to the darkest hues.
- Dead muscle is dusky in colour, shows little tendency to bleed, and does not contract to forceps pressure.
- Walking slowly towards him in the dusky red twilight was the last man he really needed to see now.
- The flowers are big, bold and abundant, and they come in several colors - pinks, purples, dusky reds, white, pale green and even some yellows.
- The chipped off-white of the wall behind her stood out starkly against her unusual dusky complexion and tan-and-green attire.
- They were concerned about her dusky complexion and how that would affect her prospects in landing a good catch in the marriage market.
- This room is decorated in dusky pink colour with another sash window.
- It's all dusky reds and yellows, shag-headed battle royales, exploding tanks, and getting up the next day to relive it on the playground.
- The lesions are bright to dusky red and reach up to 1.5 cm.
- The colour combination of pale bill, dusky red tail, red on face and red under wings distinguishes the parrot from lorikeets.
- She feels that Malayalis, with their dusky complexion, stand a good chance in modelling.
- Day was fast giving way to dusk as the sun quickly made its descent, leaving behind a sky full of dusky pinks and reds.
- Toulouse is known as La Ville Rouge (the red city) because of the dusky red hue of most buildings in the city centre; very pretty it is too.
- We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
- 1.1dated Used in euphemistic or poetic reference to black or other dark-skinned people.
Example sentencesExamples - As a small crowd gathered to watch the dusky maiden play a few hands of blackjack, I asked one of the crowd whether she was a film-star or a Kiwi pop musician.
- I wandered about tripping over palm roots and bumping into dusky maidens in my fit of jet-lag and bliss, before falling asleep among the other bodies and bright cushions.
- If there's a dusky maiden to rub on the sun oil, so much the better.
- One of my English correspondents has recently spent a couple of months in Indonesia and mentioned with approval the dusky maidens there.
- He was probably off to meet the dusky maiden when he returned to his chalet.
- 1.2literary Dim.
dusky light came from a small window Example sentencesExamples - The light was becoming dusky so I decided that sidelights were probably the way to go.
- When I came in the dusky light of early morning they were singing, and when I opened the door they jumped beneath the tables and onto counters, their narrow legs humming.
- Back then, the question of water quality in the Huangpu or Suzhou Creek was not an issue and one can imagine tourists bathing in the dusky light on a summer evening before returning to the Astor for an evening meal, drinks and a dance.
- It was just getting dark as we walked along the riverside to the Taj and the dusky light falling over the Ouse added to the romance of the outing.
- The sun dips around 1am, there's a dusky twilight and then light again at 3am.
Synonyms shadowy, dark, darkish, dim, gloomy, murky, shady, cloudy, misty, hazy, foggy unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, sunless, moonless literary crepuscular, tenebrous rare Stygian, Cimmerian, Tartarean, caliginous - 1.3attributive Used in names of animals with dark coloration, e.g. dusky dolphin, dusky warbler.
Example sentencesExamples - Researchers have identified what could be signature whistles in other dolphin species, including spotted, white-sided, and dusky dolphins.
- They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
- Observations have been made of groups of up to twenty dusky broadbills building a single nest.
- To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
- I have a dusky conure, and she is that parakeet's twin.
- An osprey flying past with a fish in its talons was another bonus while a dusky flycatcher hawked insects from various perches around the garden.
- An analysis of extrapair paternity in the dusky warbler, Phylloscopus fuscatus, revealed that females choose copulation partners on the basis of the quality but not of the quantity of song.
- And dusky sharks don't breed until they're 20 to 25 years old, after which small litters typically arrive at 3-year intervals.
Derivatives adverb Once again, our favorite Upper East Side social diary shows us that, yes, indeed, she had duskily complected ‘best pals.’ Example sentencesExamples - He was seeing her smile, seeing her dancing in the duskily lit restaurant, seeing her look into his eyes before she kissed him.
- The sun was setting, the room was beginning to fade duskily into night, and every creak sounded like the footsteps they awaited on the stairs.
- At the pot-luck, I talked to a vampirish beauty called Dafna, who paints duskily supernatural tableaux which she calls ‘Art for Healing’.
- Then he fashions Pastis, a ‘working-class’ beanery so duskily stunning and Galliphilic that the current City of Light can boast no new restaurant as unabashedly evocative of its past.
noun ˈdʌskɪnəsˈdəskinəs Our voices have the knowing, late-night duskiness of alto-sax jazz. Example sentencesExamples - It's darker, is the first thing I notice when I open my eyes again; the shadows cast by the network of interlocking branches seem deeper and to spread further in every direction, a duskiness has even infected the air all around me.
- We are not referring to bright occasional flashes but constant little flames that glow in the duskiness of someone's life, even a stranger's, to enrich it with loving-kindness.
- He sat in complete duskiness on his side of the room.
- A few seconds had a few moans from the duskiness of the cave, then the man gave out his reply, ‘I refuse to come out.’
Definition of dusky in US English: duskyadjectiveˈdəskēˈdəski 1Darkish in color. Example sentencesExamples - Colour is important from dusky pastels through to the darkest hues.
- Its paints are quite chalky, which gives a softness that means you could venture into greens or dusky reds without making the hallway feel dark.
- The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
- We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
- It's all dusky reds and yellows, shag-headed battle royales, exploding tanks, and getting up the next day to relive it on the playground.
- The dusky red grass grew in abundance, thicker and shorter than before.
- They were concerned about her dusky complexion and how that would affect her prospects in landing a good catch in the marriage market.
- Walking slowly towards him in the dusky red twilight was the last man he really needed to see now.
- Dead muscle is dusky in colour, shows little tendency to bleed, and does not contract to forceps pressure.
- Organic tones predominate - pond greens and dusky browns mixed with occasional violets and reds.
- The flowers are big, bold and abundant, and they come in several colors - pinks, purples, dusky reds, white, pale green and even some yellows.
- She feels that Malayalis, with their dusky complexion, stand a good chance in modelling.
- The old cafes are still local favorites, but now it's also possible to watch a dusky red sunset filtered through a mellow golden Chardonnay at several very good restaurants.
- The lesions are bright to dusky red and reach up to 1.5 cm.
- It is similar to the outdoors Red Hot Poker but its colour, a dusky pink, is much less aggressive.
- Toulouse is known as La Ville Rouge (the red city) because of the dusky red hue of most buildings in the city centre; very pretty it is too.
- The chipped off-white of the wall behind her stood out starkly against her unusual dusky complexion and tan-and-green attire.
- Day was fast giving way to dusk as the sun quickly made its descent, leaving behind a sky full of dusky pinks and reds.
- The colour combination of pale bill, dusky red tail, red on face and red under wings distinguishes the parrot from lorikeets.
- This room is decorated in dusky pink colour with another sash window.
- 1.1dated Used in euphemistic or poetic reference to black or other dark-skinned people.
Example sentencesExamples - As a small crowd gathered to watch the dusky maiden play a few hands of blackjack, I asked one of the crowd whether she was a film-star or a Kiwi pop musician.
- I wandered about tripping over palm roots and bumping into dusky maidens in my fit of jet-lag and bliss, before falling asleep among the other bodies and bright cushions.
- He was probably off to meet the dusky maiden when he returned to his chalet.
- If there's a dusky maiden to rub on the sun oil, so much the better.
- One of my English correspondents has recently spent a couple of months in Indonesia and mentioned with approval the dusky maidens there.
- 1.2literary Dim.
dusky light came from a small window Example sentencesExamples - The light was becoming dusky so I decided that sidelights were probably the way to go.
- When I came in the dusky light of early morning they were singing, and when I opened the door they jumped beneath the tables and onto counters, their narrow legs humming.
- The sun dips around 1am, there's a dusky twilight and then light again at 3am.
- Back then, the question of water quality in the Huangpu or Suzhou Creek was not an issue and one can imagine tourists bathing in the dusky light on a summer evening before returning to the Astor for an evening meal, drinks and a dance.
- It was just getting dark as we walked along the riverside to the Taj and the dusky light falling over the Ouse added to the romance of the outing.
Synonyms shadowy, dark, darkish, dim, gloomy, murky, shady, cloudy, misty, hazy, foggy - 1.3attributive Used in names of animals with dark coloration, e.g. dusky dolphin, dusky warbler.
Example sentencesExamples - And dusky sharks don't breed until they're 20 to 25 years old, after which small litters typically arrive at 3-year intervals.
- Observations have been made of groups of up to twenty dusky broadbills building a single nest.
- They go to watch sperm whales spout and dive or to swim with pods of dusky dolphins.
- To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
- An osprey flying past with a fish in its talons was another bonus while a dusky flycatcher hawked insects from various perches around the garden.
- Researchers have identified what could be signature whistles in other dolphin species, including spotted, white-sided, and dusky dolphins.
- I have a dusky conure, and she is that parakeet's twin.
- An analysis of extrapair paternity in the dusky warbler, Phylloscopus fuscatus, revealed that females choose copulation partners on the basis of the quality but not of the quantity of song.
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