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Recent Examples of darkly
Vince Staples is back with a new season of his darkly comedic Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, which officially returns for its second season on November 6, 2025.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
In one of the film’s most madcap and darkly comedic moments, Linda bribes her daughter with the promise of a pet hamster — who turns out to be a biter, desperate to escape its box.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
With an all-star cast featuring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, and Rachel Sennott, Bodies is a terrifying and darkly atmospheric ride that could become a new classic.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Korean director Han Chang-lok’s Funky Freaky Freaks, a darkly comic ensemble about misfits on the fringes of Seoul society, received the special jury award.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Jimmy Kimmel—whose late-night talk show was briefly taken off air by ABC after Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized remarks that Kimmel had made about Kirk’s killing and hinted darkly at regulatory consequences—was one casualty.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Jude has two films in the fest this year, the first being a riff on a Romanian icon and the other a darkly funny morality tale.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Regan’s darkly comic series is about the inner life of a crime clan.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Getty Images for IMDb Director Alex Winter’s Adulthood might be about the secrets and struggles of America's middle-class, but there's something very British about the darkly comedic romp.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
In one of the film’s most madcap and darkly comedic moments, Linda bribes her daughter with the promise of a pet hamster — who turns out to be a biter, desperate to escape its box.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
With an all-star cast featuring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, and Rachel Sennott, Bodies is a terrifying and darkly atmospheric ride that could become a new classic.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Korean director Han Chang-lok’s Funky Freaky Freaks, a darkly comic ensemble about misfits on the fringes of Seoul society, received the special jury award.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Jimmy Kimmel—whose late-night talk show was briefly taken off air by ABC after Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized remarks that Kimmel had made about Kirk’s killing and hinted darkly at regulatory consequences—was one casualty.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Jude has two films in the fest this year, the first being a riff on a Romanian icon and the other a darkly funny morality tale.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Regan’s darkly comic series is about the inner life of a crime clan.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Getty Images for IMDb Director Alex Winter’s Adulthood might be about the secrets and struggles of America's middle-class, but there's something very British about the darkly comedic romp.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for darkly
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The decoy tactic failed miserably, says Zutterman.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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But the new study found that community notes are failing miserably.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Darkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darkly. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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