(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(2) The lights of smart hotels and restaurants bob in inky water, and the iconic bronze-cast Liver birds look down from above on the city’s Liver building.
(3) Photograph: Supplied Compared with his famously mute mother, the prince has gained a reputation for bombarding ministers with his “black spider memos” – letters written, it is said, in his black inky scrawl on red-crested HRH notepaper.
(4) Feeding off the spectacular scale of American land art as a student in the 1970s, he first shot to prominence in the late 80s when he filled Matt's Gallery in east London with sump oil, drawing visitors into an inky black abyss.
(5) Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister who lobbied with Charles for NHS trials of complementary medicine, summed up his influence in this way: “He could get a hearing where all the noble, diligent lobbying of the various different associations in the complementary medicine field found it hard.” Letters, written in black inky scrawl, are a key part of his lobbying arsenal .
(6) After his Burberry show, Christopher Bailey enthused about flowers being "fragile and vulnerable", Christopher Kane talked about their "sexual undertones", while at House of Holland , dresses were decorated with the inky drawings of roses used in tattoo parlours.
(7) Best of all there are chicken enchiladas, in the inky blackness that is that mole, a dense, deep thick sauce with dark caramel tones and chilli heat but most of all a robust ripe savouriness.
(8) • 145-147 West Port, 0131-229 4431, edinburghbooks.net , westportbookfestival.org , 13-16 Oct Inky Fingers @ Forest Cafe Photograph: Chris Scott In 2010 Inky Fingers began as an open mic night at the Forest Cafe, after Harry Giles and Alice Tarbuck spotted a yawning gap in the Edinburgh scene.
(9) They are pictures of supersaturated shades – inky reds, livid oranges, fizzing greens – so unlike the tonal politeness of his earlier pale work.
(10) Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and the blackberries burst and ooze their inky black juice.
(11) Birds and insects fall quiet, streams turn inky and trees become stunted, their leaves blackened and scrunched up, like fists.
(12) Adams's accuser was not some inky-fingered hack, but a respected musicologist, Richard Taruskin of the University of California.
(13) David Lynch album cover Crazy Clown Time album cover With its fateful inky finger casting an ominous aura, the artwork for David Lynch's first solo album Crazy Clown Time taps the shadowy horror of silent cinema's expressionist masterpieces – such as The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) – and his own debut, Eraserhead.
(14) To be clear, in the inky print world of the 1990s, the pleasure of putting out an exclusive at 10 or so in the evening, and knowing newsdesks would at that instant be bollocking my peers and rivals for missing the story, well there was nothing quite like it.
(15) The inky stamps are gone now and my son is not limited to four.
(16) In moments of danger, their ink sacs release clouds of blackness to give the impression that they're much bigger than they really are and, with a wave of their big inky capes, they make a quick getaway.
(17) A gnawingly stunning Mary Magdalene gazing up at you with inky eyes as she metaphorically washes your feet with her hair?
(18) Most facilities are in and around the adobe village of Pisco Elqui where inky skies abound.
(19) He lost his footing in an inky stairwell and nearly fell down the concrete steps.
(20) The result is a version of Paltrow that we have seen nowhere near enough of: light, frothy, easy-going; eating raw clams from the shell, burying her nose in big glasses of inky red wines, enthusing over huge, steaming vats of paella.
Murky
Definition:
(superl.) Dark; obscure; gloomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
(3) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
(4) "The more questions that are raised about this murky business the more important it becomes to investigate further, including who outside the CQC was aware, and what they did," Woodcock said.
(5) Why won’t he help?” His 1966 Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret , at the Royal Court, had pushed Shakespeare’s murky tragedy into unsparing white light, but Gaskill’s unscrubbed classics seemed less revelatory in later years.
(6) She set up camp on her first floor and even when the murky water began to climb the stairs was determined to stay.
(7) The Kremlin insists that "radicals", including "anti-Semites, fascists and ultra-nationalists" staged a coup in Kiev – with murky western backing – and now continue to destabilize Ukraine.
(8) The prime minister told the Sun he had been left frustrated by the experience in 2010, which he had previously described as “murky”.
(9) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
(10) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
(11) The FPC has neither, so it risks just going quack- quack on a murky pond," he said.
(12) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
(13) Instead of talking to the demonstrators – a diverse and previously non-political bunch – he has blamed the protests on a murky foreign conspiracy.
(14) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(15) But everything about such attacks is murky; finding the perpetrators is difficult if not impossible, as the architecture of the internet allows for hackers to mask their attack through unwitting users and anonymisation software.
(16) Piles of old nuclear reactor parts and decaying fuel rods, much of them of unknown provenance and age, line the murky, radioactive waters of the cooling pond in the centre of B30.
(17) Three issues are distinguished in an attempt to clarify a murky debate: (a) the utility of probabilistic methods in data reduction, (b) the value of models that assume indeterminacy, and (c) the validity of the inference that the nervous system is largely indeterministic at the neuronal level.
(18) In a world of choice and instant access to information, the murky, semi-translucent process of party politics that is plagued by lies, corruption and plastic promises is something most of us steer clear of.
(19) Nor is it just a matter of murky Murdoch practices.
(20) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.