The starkness of Finnish life - and the sloe-black humour that is part of it - loses none of its richness of expression for English-language audiences.
He peered upwards at the moon, full in a cloudless sloe-black night sky.
Its berries are produced in large clusters, but are of a sloe-black color, producing a pretty appearance.
Her sloe-black hair hung unkempt about her face.
A sloe black stallion who had fallen on his side, onto the shaft, desperately thrashed about, flailing his hooves against the slippery roadway.
Synonyms
black, jet-black, pitch-black, as black as pitch, pitchy, pitch-dark, inky, ink-black, coal-black, ebony, raven, sable, sooty