black
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～ (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
black
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～ offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
black
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～ being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
black
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～ (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
black
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～ (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
black
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～ of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
black
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～ extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
black
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～ marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
black
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～ (of coffee) without cream or sugar
black-barred
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～ having a pattern consisting of black bars
black
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～ stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
black
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～ harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
black
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～ soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
American black bear
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～ brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
animal black
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～ black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
Asiatic black bear
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～ bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
Black
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～ a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
black
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～ total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
Black
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～ popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
black
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～ (board games) the darker pieces