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dark-skinned

adjective as in swarthy

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But what’s even more insidious is that when Trump and other right-wing speakers invoke the “threat” posed by dark-skinned immigrants, he’s tapping into many white men’s sense of themselves as protectors.

From Salon

His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".

From BBC

“It’s sad what happened with Tyran Porter,” says a bald, dark-skinned woman.

He recalled that his friend had faced trouble earning the respect of his white subordinates, and there was “a lot of discrimination against dark-skinned Mexican persons” at the time.

"But what followed was a too familiar horror that too many of us visible black dark-skinned performers have experienced," they wrote.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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