: unpleasantly moist or wet
a dank basement
dankly
adverb
dankness
noun
Examples of dank in a Sentence
vegetables tended to go bad quickly in the dank cellar
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Image The official White House account is rife with boasting and taunting posts, many drawing on meme formats from the dank corners of the internet.
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James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
In Ghana’s capital, follow a visit to a castle where captives waiting to be taken to the New World were held in dank dungeons with a trip to the Black Star of Africa sitting atop an arch, announcing Ghana’s independence.
—Gerald Narciso Jeremie Souteyrat, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
For one, the hair dye solution was so slippery and hard to control, women were using rags instead of towels and dank basement sinks to dye their hair in order to avoid making a mess in their own bathrooms.
—Esther K. Choy, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Five people could comfortably fit — and there were 43 of us crammed in a dank hole.
—Lea Lane, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
In Ghana’s capital, follow a visit to a castle where captives waiting to be taken to the New World were held in dank dungeons with a trip to the Black Star of Africa sitting atop an arch, announcing Ghana’s independence.
—Gerald Narciso Jeremie Souteyrat, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
For one, the hair dye solution was so slippery and hard to control, women were using rags instead of towels and dank basement sinks to dye their hair in order to avoid making a mess in their own bathrooms.
—Esther K. Choy, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
Five people could comfortably fit — and there were 43 of us crammed in a dank hole.
—Lea Lane, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Dank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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