adjective
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resembling ink, esp in colour; dark or black
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of, containing, or stained with ink
inky fingers
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Origin of inky
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At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“We didn’t see it at the time, but item by inky item we were turning him into a New York icon,” wrote former Page Six reporter and editor Susan Mulcahy in a 2016 Politico piece.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Elsewhere, a stripe of lemon yellow radiates against an inky background, interrupted by numerous dark patches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The vision turns spookier: “Her inky eyes bulged. Mā opened her mouth wide, as if to say something, and dirt spilled out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
He drifted along with the grannies, pulling his oar slowly through the inky water while his heart raced like a speedboat motor.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
Dark to begin with, the 1966 musical grew still inkier with Sam Mendes’ mid-1990s revival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
THE GRAND-DUKE And the inkier the blackness All the clearer do we see To select the whitest pigeon In the dove-cote, and the bluest Blue jay on the shuddering tree!
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand
And as the road once again shaped for another crater-like ravine, plunged in inkier darkness and shrouded in solemn stillness, thoughts surged rapidly through one's mind.
From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Thomas H. Reid
Here and there an inkier blackness moving showed a unit that had begun to find itself again.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
They swept the heavens over and back, steadied awhile pointing inland, and went out again, leaving an even inkier blackness than before, and setting the watchers blinking and rubbing their dazzled eyes.
From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower
Shooting in 35-millimeter black-and-white film, Mr. Garrel fills the wide screen with a ravishment of tones, from inkiest black to crystalline white and every imaginable gray in between.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018
His figures — rendered in the inkiest shades of black — command notice and authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
From the palest blush of pink to the inkiest blue, stone fruit come in a vast array of colors, enriching the beauty – and nutrition – of your dining palette.
From US News ● Jul. 14, 2015
Darkness, the blackest, inkiest darkness, rolled over me in waves and hid me so well no Jack Johnson or Big Bertha could ever find me.
From Three Times and Out by Nellie L. McClung
The top of one pinnacle took the shapely, clean-cut form of a rabbit's head, in the inkiest silhouette, while it rested against the moon.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain
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