blot
noun
a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
blotty
-
a word derived from
blot.
Example Sentences
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He renders the tropical wilderness in thin, brittle linework, while blotty sponged black ink fills out coarse tree bark and the shadows cast by leafy vegetation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2019
His "postcards"—melancholy vistas of flatland and horizon, with blotty little figures gazing at some manifestation of Nature or Culture, a pyramid or a rubber stamp masquerading as the moon—are philosophical landscapes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now will you excuse this blotty letter—written in bed—and accept my thanks for all the good your book has done me.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
Ten minutes later Hootchinoo Bill and Kink Mitchell were roused from their blankets by a wild-eyed Swede that strove to force upon them an ink-scrawled and very blotty piece of paper.
From The Faith of Men by Jack London
If at this instant it be thrown into water, it passes immediately to a Prussian blue, losing, at the same time, however, much of its sharpness, and sometimes indeed becoming quite blotty and confused.”
From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois
