murkily

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for murkily
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The vibe is slightly scandalous and dimly lit, basically everything a good speakeasy should be.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Murkily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murkily. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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