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Definition of Dankly
1. dank [adv] - See also: dank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dankly
Literary usage of Dankly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"But we will not have it so” Jasper flushed up dankly as he bowed to her. “Madam,
by your words you are the Queen. But pardon me, I dispute your right to ..."
2. Memories & Notes of Persons & Places, 1852-1912 by Sir Sidney Colvin (1921)
"the African traveller and administrator, in the upper floor of a Government office
in Westminster, and saw newspaper posters flapping dankly in the street ..."
3. Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1893)
"... wind that simultaneously stung and benumbed, that felt dankly chill as the
touch of a drowned hand, and yet parched ..."
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