Adjective

(er)

Filled with or giving off smoke.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

* 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness

The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.

Having a flavour like smoke.

(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.

(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.

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Adjective

(er)

Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}

A shade of color that is rather dark.

The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.

(dated) dark-skinned

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:* In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.

ashen, greyish skin coloration

This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.