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  • adjective superlative form of inky: most inky.

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Examples

  • Darkness, the blackest, inkiest darkness, rolled over me in waves and hid me so well no Jack

    Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918

  • And beyond the vale, eastwards and northwards, Catherine looked out upon a wild sea of moors wrapped in mists, sullen and storm-beaten, while to the left the clouds hung deepest and inkiest over the high points of the Ullswater mountains.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • And beyond the vale, eastward and northward, Catherine looked out upon a wild sea of moors wrapped in mists, sullen and storm-beaten, while to the left the clouds hung deepest and inkiest over the high points of the Ullswater mountains.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • 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.

    A Tramp Abroad 1879

  • 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.

    A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872

  • The iPad's blacks were among the inkiest in the group, matching the late model MacBook Pro, beating the Inspiron, and blowing the iPhone out of the water.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • Sardine and mackerel fishing boats, their masts bejeweled with lights, headed out from the city’s harbor for a nighttime haul; far out, an oil tanker flat against the sea, a sugar cube of lights in the inkiest part of the blackening water.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Sardine and mackerel fishing boats, their masts bejeweled with lights, headed out from the city’s harbor for a nighttime haul; far out, an oil tanker flat against the sea, a sugar cube of lights in the inkiest part of the blackening water.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Sardine and mackerel fishing boats, their masts bejeweled with lights, headed out from the city’s harbor for a nighttime haul; far out, an oil tanker flat against the sea, a sugar cube of lights in the inkiest part of the blackening water.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Sardine and mackerel fishing boats, their masts bejeweled with lights, headed out from the city’s harbor for a nighttime haul; far out, an oil tanker flat against the sea, a sugar cube of lights in the inkiest part of the blackening water.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

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