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
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 Duchochois, Peter C.
The drawing of detail, for instance, inclines to be blotty; it is no longer affectionately done.
From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin
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 London, Jack
