Dark Skinned

Word DARK SKINNED
Character 12
Hyphenation dark-skinned
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Dark Skinned"

What do we mean by dark skinned?

Having a relatively dark skin.

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The word "dark-skinned" in example sentences

The man was described as dark-skinned, middle-aged and unshaven with thinning hair, the news release said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The man is described as dark-skinned and clean shaven with short hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Social worker Jane Addams, who led the movement to assimilate immigrants through settlement houses and who may have observed more immigrants at the time than anyone, reported that Italians in Chicago “held no particular animosity toward Negroes, for those in the neighborhood were mostly from South Italy and accustomed to the dark-skinned races.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

I frequent a restaurant run by a dark-skinned woman people call la negrita. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Them some bad bitches,” a heavyset dark-skinned sistah wearing frizzy-looking cornrows said, jumping from her seat, dropping the Detroit newspaper. ❋ Thomas Slater (2011)

Isis whispered, nodding her head at a dark-skinned woman wearing a weave pulled back into one long ponytail, sitting at a table in the corner by herself. ❋ Thomas Slater (2011)

If the state terrorism tactic of crucifixion has to be the gateway to salvation, it keeps Christians obsessed with keeping people divided into the saved and the damned and the righteous and the sinful, which in the mind of Christian terrorists, translates into white Christians vs. dark-skinned infidels. ❋ Rita Nakashima Brock (2011)

Their mom was a dark-skinned black woman and their dad a fair-skinned Dominican. ❋ Janet Jackson (2011)

It's perfectly common to refer to black people (or dark-skinned, or African-American, or whatever term you prefer) as mollos, mollitos, or morenos. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was a dark-skinned brother with pearly white teeth, deep dimples and brushed-wavy hair. ❋ Thomas Slater (2011)

The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. ❋ Cheryl Faye (2011)

Charging people of dark-skinned races different premiums for health insurance "would without a doubt be extremely inappropriate," Ms. Kokott writes, even if statistics showed racial differences in morbidity. ❋ Charles Forelle (2010)

This the case quite honestly for most people, but particularly for people who have been multiply marginalized -- people who are disabled, queer/gender queer, dark-skinned people. ❋ Cory Silverberg (2011)

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