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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Growing up dark-skinned in the South wasn’t always easy.
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Their photos—a dark-skinned African immigrant bonding with White, blond children—offer a glimpse of another world beyond America’s persistent racial divisions.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
In another one-minute clip by a director named Seyi.KG, brown and dark-skinned women (also looking highly digitized) move sensually across a gilded library in body paint.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
This is a dark-skinned, late-ripening grape variety known for producing full-bodied, tannic wines with remarkable aging potential.
—Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Their photos—a dark-skinned African immigrant bonding with White, blond children—offer a glimpse of another world beyond America’s persistent racial divisions.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
In another one-minute clip by a director named Seyi.KG, brown and dark-skinned women (also looking highly digitized) move sensually across a gilded library in body paint.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
This is a dark-skinned, late-ripening grape variety known for producing full-bodied, tannic wines with remarkable aging potential.
—Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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“Dark-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark-skinned. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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