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  • adjective Not inked.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ inked

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Examples

  • Mike Shoyket's uninked art is fantastic and looks great in the sepia tone that they're using to print it.

    Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: SLG’s Captain Blood #1 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • The edition, in TwoMorrow's words, "presented Captain Victory #1 as it was created before it was broken up for the later Pacific Comics series, reproduced from copies of Jack's uninked pencils!"

    Comic: Captain Victory Zen Tiger 2010

  • I'd love to see an uninked page by either of these artists / pencilers, and then show a variety of "after" copies of the page after they are inked by different inker to visually show what an inker can do with the pencils that they are given.

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #153 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The forty year old Pam, who recently earned her US citizenship, has scheduled an appointment with Beverly Hills tattoo removal specialist, Dr. Tattoff to get “uninked.”

    Pamela Anderson Plastic Surgery 2008

  • He seems to touch every string with fresh and uninked fingers; and the secret of his power lies, I suspect, in the fact that his words: “Life being more than all else to me ...” are so utterly true.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • Hamm also graces his readers with some "work in progress" stuff, showing uninked pencils of various episodes underneath the finished product.

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2002

  • Most likely Jackson impressed the finished prints, specially redampened for the purpose, with one or two of the uninked blocks.

    John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

  • To use O. Henry's immortal joke, we have days of Damon and Knights of Pythias writing those uninked letters to Bill.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • Of the colour of the mahogany bank furniture was Uncle Bushrod -- thus dark was he externally; white as the uninked pages of the bank ledgers was his soul.

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

  • He seems to touch every string with fresh and uninked fingers; and the secret of his power lies, I suspect, in the fact that his words: "Life being more than all else to me ..." are so utterly true.

    Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

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