dark-skinned
adjective
: having a brown skin tone : having dark pigmentation of the skin
Uncle Shelton was a thin, dark-skinned black man with a sharp conk and a soft-spoken voice.—
Drew T. Brown III
Drew T. Brown IIIThe dark-skinned Aboriginals, thought to have migrated from mainland Southeast Asia 40,000 years ago, numbered 300,000 when the first British settlers arrived.—Seymour Topping
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Beautiful dark-skinned Lupita Nyong’o has the misfortune of personifying the guilt of the new racists.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2024
The silent video of a skinny dark-skinned boy appears to reveal a singular player gliding through packs of mere mortals with the ball glued to his feet.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The attacks were a gift to peddlers of xenophobia, white supremacism, and Christian nationalism: as dark-skinned Muslim foreigners bent on murdering Americans, al Qaeda terrorists and their ilk seemed to have stepped out of a far-right fever dream.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
As a dark-skinned woman of color, I have personally been drawn to maximalist fashion because the colors and shades complement my skin tone beautifully.
—Essence, 31 May 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2024
The silent video of a skinny dark-skinned boy appears to reveal a singular player gliding through packs of mere mortals with the ball glued to his feet.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The attacks were a gift to peddlers of xenophobia, white supremacism, and Christian nationalism: as dark-skinned Muslim foreigners bent on murdering Americans, al Qaeda terrorists and their ilk seemed to have stepped out of a far-right fever dream.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
As a dark-skinned woman of color, I have personally been drawn to maximalist fashion because the colors and shades complement my skin tone beautifully.
—Essence, 31 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for dark-skinned
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“Dark-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark-skinned. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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