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Starkly   /stˈɑrkli/   Listen
Starkly

adverb
1.
In a stark manner.
2.
In sharp outline or contrast.
3.
In a blunt manner.





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"Starkly" Quotes from Famous Books



... slope and the mild-mannered horse caught the idea of stables and put on a gait. Raven could see the house, delightful to him in its hospitable amplitude and starkly fitting the wintry landscape. There in the columned front porch running away at each side into wide verandas, stood a woman, tall, of proportions that looked, at this first glance, heroic. She wore a shawl about her shoulders, but her head ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... about the matter, but all the more they are influenced by that which has percolated through to them from the more learned, loosening what before was firm and tight, confusing and complicating what before was starkly plain. This has been brought home to me as I have sat at sing-songs and have heard a coon-song sung entitled "The Preacher and the Bear." With apologies to the easily-shocked I will quote. The hero of the song is a coloured minister ...
— Thoughts on religion at the front • Neville Stuart Talbot


Words linked to "Starkly" :   stark


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