dark-skinned

adjective

ˈdärk-ˈskind

: 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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The suspect is described as dark-skinned with braided hair and was wearing a black jacket with a black hoodie underneath. —

Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024 Police described the man as dark-skinned with a heavy build. —

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 1 Dec. 2024 Of course, Putin’s version of such values means overt hostility to gays, women’s rights, and dark-skinned Russians. —

Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024 In the next room, a sculpture comprising a circle of coconuts and three conch shells, and titled Coral, Coconut Portal, frames another painting, Allegory of Liberation, showing a dark-skinned girl with horns and flowing black hair. —

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