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  • adjective superlative form of black: most black.

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Examples

  • In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight!

    Think Progress » Sen. Lindsey Graham and Glenn Beck Agree: Health Reform Is Like A Japanese Bombing Attack 2010

  • I just meant that “in blackest night” is a sort of familiar phrase you hear a fair amount, a cliche almost, like “the crack of dawn”.

    Haughty Melodic 2005

  • I am glad that your scheme, Mr. Sydney, will tonight place in the grip of the law, two of these miscreants, one of whom, the Dead Man, has long been known as the blackest villain that ever breathed.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • They tell me that he has stood convicted of horse stealing, that he is a notable perjurer, that he is known as the blackest-hearted liar in Missinaba County.

    Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906

  • I have told them who I am, -- that Kirby, to wit, whom an injurious world calls the blackest pirate unhanged, -- and have recounted to them how the great galleon which I took some months ago went down yesterday with all on board, you and I with these others being the sole survivors.

    To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

  • Lord Casselthorpe has long been known as the blackest sheep of the British Peerage, being called the 'Coster

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Jeremiah has been called the blackest of pessimists, and among his best-known sayings some seem to justify the charge: —

    Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

  • The information was none the less dishearting to those not so skillful in their work, and many were the murmurings against the contract system, which was justly called the blackest form of servitude sustained by law.

    Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker Thomas S. Gaines 1889

  • Monday's blasts recalled the blackest days of post-Saddam Hussein violence in the capital and shattered the city's fragile security situation.

    iac world news feed 2009

  • A spate of bloody car bombings in Baghdad on Monday recalled the blackest days of violence in the capital as at least 34 people were killed and nearly 140 were wounded.

    Raw Story 2009

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