dusky

Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

As they alway do, Dean's band play completely live - no samples, no backing tracks, no programmed beats - perfectly complementing the dusky glow of her voice.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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

Her day dress is buttercup yellow and perfectly complements her new skin color—a dusky light brown, like warmed milk with cinnamon and nutmeg stirred into it.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

They’re a scene-stealing duo whose comic relief goes a long way toward softening some of the movie’s harsher angles and brightening some of its duskier corners.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

The ocean ahead and around was the duskier for the spectral illumination of the near foam and the glimmer of the ice-coated ship.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

It is bordered on either side by bands of a duskier hue, which probably represent shallow transverse valleys.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

The influence of Machiavelli, which had given Marlowe tragic figures that were bright and splendid and burning, smouldered in Webster into a duskier and intenser heat.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

In five gleaming ponds trembled five duskier evening heavens, and every wave that leaped up painted itself to a ruby in the hovering fire of the sun.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

The people around Michèle hide their duskiest anxieties deep inside, while all her darkness shimmers on the surface.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

Stockport is renowned throughout the entire district as one of the duskiest, smokiest holes, and looks, indeed, especially when viewed from the viaduct, excessively repellent. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

Then with a laugh at her own childishness she "touched wood" to propitiate the jealous fates and ran down stairs to hide herself in the duskiest corner of the veranda.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The two of us held close together, and chose the duskiest thickets, crawling belly-wise over the little clear patches and avoiding the crown of the ridge like the plague.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest green, - Him each little leaflet welcomes, Flushing with an orient sheen.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George