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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Example Sentences
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Inky black water surrounds him as a blinding light focuses on his body, making his pale skin glow like a marble statue.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025
Inky silhouettes in a red-orange void, they look like Boschian imps, but these are ordinary men in a hell of human making.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023
Among them was Inky, 29, who reached out of her transport crate and held his hand as if to ask, “Is everything going to be all right? Do you know where we’re going?”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2022
Some cephalopods can break free from their tanks, such as an octopus named Inky that crawled out of a New Zealand aquarium in 2016 and followed a drainpipe to the Pacific Ocean.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019
I slapped the out of order sign on the neighboring Galaga cabinet and looked at the start-up screen, which was listing off the game’s villainous ghosts: Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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