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Recent Examples of inky
Gothic beauty is spilling all over the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet, with a litany of a-listers donning inky black eyeshadow and nude lip shades.
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Other evidence of bed bugs includes bloody or inky stains on fabric and a sweet, musty smell in the room.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
Cardi dialed up the goth glam with thin angled eyebrows and a vampy red lip and wore her inky black hair in voluminous curls.
—Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Other evidence of bed bugs includes bloody or inky stains on fabric and a sweet, musty smell in the room.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
Cardi dialed up the goth glam with thin angled eyebrows and a vampy red lip and wore her inky black hair in voluminous curls.
—Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inky
Adjective
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Olsen kept her glam simple for the evening and opted for a terracotta blush on her cheeks and a dusky mauve gloss on her lips.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The night serum visibly smooths wrinkles, reduces fine lines, and soothes the appearance of dark circles and uneven skin tone.—
Gabriela Izquierdo,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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The scent is smoky yet sweet, spicy yet smooth, dark but with an underlying lightness—the result of combining clean white musk with rose, tobacco, suede, and cumin.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Over the course of a few hours in Washington on Tuesday, the increasingly muddled state of public health unfolded.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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This is an impossible task – partly due to Trump’s own muddled thinking – but most importantly, because Putin does not want peace.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The couple spent 118 days — nearly four months — on their raft and dingy in the open water before they were rescued by chance by a passing Korean vessel.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Always look for bright, vibrant heads of lettuce and avoid brown spots or dingy yellow leaves.—
Lauren O'Connor,
Health,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, the outlook for heavier-duty Russian rocket engines is murky, at best.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Cowboys are coming off a Week 1 loss to the Eagles, and their immediate future is looking murky.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her feet are bare, the toenails a little muddied.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Computers, desks, a washer and dryer were among the belongings in the muddied basement that were wrecked in the storm.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The stela offers a rare, unfiltered look at how Egypt’s traditions were expressed under Ptolemaic rule, highlighting the decree’s importance for understanding religion, governance, and royal ideology.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Posing too hard in each snap was uncool; Snapchat was meant to be unfiltered, that is until filters came out.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Granted, people’s memories can get a little hazy at times, but here’s an unscientific sample of what some other metro music fans hold dearest about Memorial Hall.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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Keeping the tradition alive Every year on a hazy summer evening, Hoosiers gather at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area in Linton to learn the ropes.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
9 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Inky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inky. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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