swarthy
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"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2024
He turned down the offer of professional makeup, which left him perspiring and with a swarthy five o’clock shadow under the studio’s bright lights.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019
He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018
Butterworth, who has three brothers and considers Mendes his fourth, is a sort of Mendes Maxi-Me: the same salt-and-pepper beard, the same swarthy skin, the same tonsorial style, but not the same metabolism.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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