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  • adverb In a dank manner.

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Examples

  • They hurried then through endless passages, some smoothly walled and artificially lighted, others rough-hewn in the solid rock, dankly odorous and in Stygian darkness.

    "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009

  • There was a picture of John Barrymore in the very old, dankly colorful Lyceum theater, so I was hoping his ghost might be fluttering about so he could see someone could finally out-ham him.

    Gwen Davis: In the Next Room, Reviewed 2009

  • We are clued in by the dankly hallucinatory style that "Fight Club" transpires somewhere to the left of the real world, like an emanation of the untrammeled male id.

    A Fistful Of Darkness 2008

  • The water smelled dankly of mud and winter, which I hadn't seemed to notice when I'd been in it.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • The water smelled dankly of mud and winter, which I hadn't seemed to notice when I'd been in it.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • We all know that our politicians want to get on the peace bandwagon and even Brian Mulroney now says that his greatest priority is peace. dankly I think this is untrue.

    Looking for Trouble 1984

  • Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • It was warm, so much so that we must first open our outer coats, toss back our hoods, and then take them off; the men and women of the tribe both went bare to the waist and I found my under-tunic sticky with sweat, clinging dankly to my body.

    Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

  • Chill sweat gathered in his armpits, beaded dankly on his slightly hollowed cheeks and square jaw.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • In the moist floor an old well smelled dankly; a great frog sat on its coping, pale as a corpse.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

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