shadowily

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Adverb
  • The topical, darkly funny, whip-smart series from Eric Kripke follows a band of vigilante misfits who fight to expose the all-powerful, corrupt conglomerate Vought International and its stable of villainous superheroes.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Related Stories Jermaine Fowler, James Morosini, Pauline Chalamet, Edy Modica, Rob Yang and Brendan Hunt star in the darkly comedic sci-fi thriller.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 May 2026
Adverb
  • This is the year that the Bob Baker Marionettes — whose hipster cred and general renown increased when the theater moved to Highland Park from its longtime home tucked obscurely west of downtown — played Coachella.
    Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a novella of a wine list, with by-the-glass options obscurely scrawled on a mirror above the bar.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • The race there begins somberly in the museum before runners bound up one flight of stairs into a hallway that leads into the main stairwell; from there, the steps settle into continuous, shallow right turns providing a repetitive, hypnotic cadence.
    Michelle Sinclair Colman, Curbed, 7 May 2026
  • The music came back on, and the men danced somberly to wedding music.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Shadowily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowily. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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