dark-skinned

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dark-skinned (comparative darker-skinned, superlative darkest-skinned)

1. Having a relatively dark skin.

   Antonym: light-skinned

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     "They are only fit for muck, they are; and they smell bad enough for it already." Job, it will be perceived, was no admirer of the manners and customs of our dark-skinned brothers.

2. Of a black person, having relatively dark-colored skin.

• swarthy