swarthy

Example Sentences

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The best reason to watch it is Jude Law’s swarthily entertaining performance as Henry at his vilest, with state-of-the-art support from a horrifically pus-leaking, maggot-ridden leg wound.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the thousands flocking to the city was a “short, scrappy and swarthy” Philadelphia artist born Emmanuel Radnitzky, “a pure product of immigrant America” in both his ambition and taste for self-reinvention.

From New York Times

A slim, swarthy young fellow, Lupe moved softly as a cat, and purred when he spoke.

From Literature

"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet," it says.

From BBC

Mexicans became useful villains, historians say: swarthy, dangerous antagonists to fairer heroines or heroes, through a range of negative stereotyping.

From Los Angeles Times