dark-complexioned

Mother and child left Mr. Cross soon after June’s birth in 1954, but since the girl was dark-complexioned enough that she could not pass as white, she and her mother began encountering racism.

Dillon said dark-complexioned Aboriginals on the mainland doubt his heritage because of his appearance.

It would be startling enough if she were blond — given my side of the family, its dark-complexioned percentile surely as high as its Ashkenazi provenance.

A moment later, they arrived at a small room where two men were waiting—one overweight and pallid, another thin and dark-complexioned.

Even so, people in Sumter County have long considered the Turks, who have never numbered more than a few hundred, to be in a racial category of their own, a cluster of insular, dark-complexioned families suspended in the tricky Southern space between white and nonwhite — and, some would say, between fact and legend.