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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One episode inverts the tired old scenario in which white explorers are threatened with death by dark-skinned natives; here, the captors are Nordic warrior women.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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
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Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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
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 16 Jul. 2025.
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