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bleakly
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adv 1: without hope; "he wondered bleakly"
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boucle
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n 1: a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect
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clay
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n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but
hard when fired
2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay]
3: United States general who commanded United States forces in
Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift
(1897-1978) [syn: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon
Clay]
4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri
Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn:
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser]
5: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for
dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery
of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff
in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps
their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay,
remains]
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darkly
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adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the
mist" [syn: darkly, in darkness]
2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at
her"
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slickly
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adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn:
glibly, slickly]
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starkly
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adv 1: in a stark manner; "He was starkly unable to achieve
coherence"
2: in sharp outline or contrast; "the black walls rose starkly
from the snow"
3: in a blunt manner; "in starkly realistic terms"
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thickly
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adv 1: spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue;
"after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"
2: in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely
packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for
every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn:
densely, thickly] [ant: thinly]
3: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn:
thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly]
4: with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened
margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the
surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and
lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: lightly,
thinly]
5: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn:
thick, thickly]
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treacly
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adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy,
treacly]
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uniquely
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adv 1: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the
properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely,
unambiguously]
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weakly
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adv 1: in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly
agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly
attracted to her" [ant: strongly]
adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a
feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn:
decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety,
sapless, weak, weakly]
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weekly
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adv 1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly"
[syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each
week]
adj 1: of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit";
"weekly paper" [syn: weekly, hebdomadal,
hebdomadary]
n 1: a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per
year)
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berkeley
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n 1: Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the
materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753) [syn: Berkeley,
Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley]
2: a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco
Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
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sparkly
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adj 1: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile
effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row
of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling,
effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly]
2: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle
beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his
glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full
of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry";
"scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with
sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn:
aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting,
glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant,
scintillating, sparkly]
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pipeclay
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n 1: fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery
and in whitening leather [syn: pipeclay, terra alba]
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barkley
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n 1: United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the
United States (1877-1956) [syn: Barkley, Alben Barkley,
Alben William Barkley]
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aye
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blackly
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chicly
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clerkly
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crackly
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hackly
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ay
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ae
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barclay
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underclay
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buckley
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markley
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weekley
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barkeley
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tickly
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