inkstained

Adjective

inkstained (comparative more inkstained, superlative most inkstained)

1. That has been stained with ink.
   • 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...1895, Clive Holland, My Japanese Wife, A Japanese Idyl, page 91
   • 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.1983, Christopher Morley, “City of Glory and Despair”, in New York Magazine, volume 16, number 22, page 44