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dusky

[duhs-kee] / ˈdʌs ki /


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Smoking in a raffish suit like a film noir baddie with a shock of red hair ready to torch the world, Noble’s Richard employs a dusky, ironic voice to flaying effect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Three of her dusky, jazz-infused soul songs are in Spotify's Viral Top 50.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

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

Not the nut brown of the Summer Islanders on their swan ships, nor the red-brown of the Doth- raki horselords, nor the charcoal-and-earth color of the dusky woman’s skin, but black.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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