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dark-skinned

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-whiteadjective

    having skin rich in melanin pigments

    "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"

  2. dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthyadjective

    naturally having skin of a dark color

    "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"

Wiktionary

  1. dark-skinnedadjective

    Having a relatively dark skin.

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  1. dark-skinned

    Dark-skinned refers to having a naturally high concentration of melanin in the skin which results in a brown or black tone. People with dark skin can originate from various racial and ethnic groups, including African, Indigenous, South Asian, and Southeast Asian descents among others. The concept of skin color can vary globally and culturally, and it is one of the physical traits often used to classify humans into different races or ethnicities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dark-skinned in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dark-skinned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of dark-skinned in a Sentence

  1. Neli Delgado:

    I used to be discriminated against because I was poor and dark-skinned, i would like to empower women so that they can become suppliers for the business group I'll have in the future.

  2. Astrid Silva:

    Shes a dark-skinned woman (who) comes from a poor region in Mexico like many of our families, shes not only challenging old notions of beauty that always involved blond hair and light skin. Shes threatening them.

  3. Viola Davis:

    I'd like to thank Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Pete Nowalk for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me.


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