(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.
Pitchy
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
(a.) Smeared with pitch.
(a.) Black; pitch-dark; dismal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.
(2) I hadn't learned how to tune a guitar, and nor had I really learned how to sing yet – so there are moments where it gets a bit "pitchy", to use modern parlance.