Inky \Ink"y\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. ``Inky blots.'' --Shak. ``Its inky blackness.'' --Boyle.
I look into the inky blackness of the stuffy chamber.
We listened to the chorus of cicadas, looked at the stars in the inky sky, and breathed in the clear mountain air sweetened by the smell of oranges.
'Not all headmasters were sadists,' was the best that could be said about the inky dictators at the top of these festering institutions. Have things improved over the years?