inkstained
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Whenever a parcel heavier than usual was dropped on the floor by a careless coolie, I expected that the room, with its ink-stained, paper-panelled walls, on which were pasted or fixed with quaint-headed pins the steamship bills and those of several of the theatre tea-houses, would collapse forthwith with no more warning than the crack of its slight, dry timbers."
- "Pausing, before the Bridge, at the grotesquely ugly tablet on the house where New York's greatest poet with his own inkstained hands set type for Leaves of Grass."
- "He had inkstained fingertips and a big heart, and this bedridden shrunken-down version too weak to get out of bed was an ominous image of what could be and what would never be."
- "He popularized the phrase, “Turn the page, wash your hands,” in reference to dirty hands being ink-stained by cheap comic books."
Etymology
From inkstain + -ed.