blackly

adverb more blackly · most blackly

1. With a black appearance. Not far from the sea water and in the lee of a great rock rising blackly out of the ice, a herd of walrus lay basking in the sun[…]

   Similar: ebonly

2. Darkly or gloomily. Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
3. Wickedly. He knew himself for a lost soul, and all that he loved in the world was out in the tides. There, at any rate, he could go, too, and give back that gift of life he had so blackly misused.
4. In accordance with black cultural sensibility. Maya Angelou's ecomium^([sic])/tribute set the tone for all that followed because she spoke so passionately, personally, and Blackly about her love for Baldwin. She said that it's easy for a woman to find a lover, that she could stand on any street corner or even sit in any church pew and do that, b