Inky

/ˈɪŋki/ · adjective

Meaning

Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
2. Spattered or stained with ink.
3. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.

Example Sentences

One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]

Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.

We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”

The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

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• inkier
• inkiest

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