Not utterly defaced, but only duskened.
Nicolls.
Dusk"i*ly (?), adv. In a dusky manner. Byron.
Dusk"i*ness, n. The state of being dusky.
Dusk"ish, a. Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.
Dusk"ness, n. Duskiness. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.
Dusk"y (?), a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.
Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
Dryden.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
Hawthorne.