dusky

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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

Preshow, the view from one’s seat is of being in a massive old opera house with dusky green drapes flanked by rows of orchestra seats.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Her legs are rosy orange and dusky purple, punctuated by small bumps.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

A lopsided moon popped up in the dusky sky, but it didn’t shed light on any Wonders.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney