Starkly
['sta:kli]
Definition
(adv.) in a blunt manner; 'in starkly realistic terms'.
(adv.) in sharp outline or contrast; 'the black walls rose starkly from the snow'.
(adv.) in a stark manner; 'He was starkly unable to achieve coherence'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.
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Examples
- His very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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