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inky
/ˈɪŋki/
adj 3name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, animated, behind, black, clear, tragic
VERB + INKY
back, map, tastes
INKY + NOUN
blueberry, it's, jungle, litre, movies, night, options, sky
PREP.
down, from, through
ADV.
fiercely
Definitions
adj
1
Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
2
Spattered or stained with ink.
3
Dark-skinned; black.
The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.
name
1
The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Do you like to play as an asshole Inky? What options, lines of dialogues, actions have you picked?
Of my 9 Inkies, the ones I felt to be the strongest (character-wise) were my atheist Trevelyan Reaver, my devout Andrastian Trevelyan mage, and my rebellious and fiercely elfy Lavellan who romanced Solas.
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Synonyms
adjective — of the color of black ink
- ink-black
- inky-black
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One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivin
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Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects
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We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisb
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Do you like to play as an asshole Inky? What options, lines of dialogues, actions have you picked?
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Of my 9 Inkies, the ones I felt to be the strongest (character-wise) were my atheist Trevelyan Reaver, my devout Andrastian Trevelyan mage, and my rebellious and fiercely elfy Lavellan who romanced So
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My Inky was a very faithful Andrastian, like his family, and he believed he was the Herald of Andraste…kind of.
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