: 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
The 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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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 The gunman, described as a dark-skinned man with a green jacket, ran off and was last seen running south on Bushwick Ave. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025 The suspect is described by cops as dark-skinned and 5-foot-5 and was dressed in black. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025 The play, about two brothers, one dark-skinned, and the other with a complexion light enough to enable him to pass for white, drew Fugard his fifth Tony nomination for best play. Carmel Dagan, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dark-skinned

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First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dark-skinned was in 1750

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“Dark-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark-skinned. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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