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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Her experience as a dark-skinned South Sudanese woman inspired her influencing journey in the first place.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 19 June 2025
In their eyes, a white man with an injured arm and bandages on his face had boarded the train with his dark-skinned slave.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
And this time, the leads are both Black, both dark-skinned (a rarity for Netflix shows), and both dealing with all that comes with being young, Black, gifted, and in love.
—Ebonie Walker, Refinery29, 12 May 2025
Of course, dark-skinned Black women are historically stereotyped as aggressive even though Doechii’s urgent asks are relatively inoffensive in the grand scheme of celebrity misbehavior.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 May 2025
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Kiana Murden, Vogue, 19 June 2025
In their eyes, a white man with an injured arm and bandages on his face had boarded the train with his dark-skinned slave.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
And this time, the leads are both Black, both dark-skinned (a rarity for Netflix shows), and both dealing with all that comes with being young, Black, gifted, and in love.
—Ebonie Walker, Refinery29, 12 May 2025
Of course, dark-skinned Black women are historically stereotyped as aggressive even though Doechii’s urgent asks are relatively inoffensive in the grand scheme of celebrity misbehavior.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 May 2025
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“Dark-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark-skinned. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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