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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. With a swarthy hue.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a swarthy manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.

Etymologies

  1. swarthy + -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “A different elevator operator came up this time, a swarthily handsome Italian man.”

    Simon & Schuster: Uprising

  • “Heck, if the guilty parties are even tiniest bit swarthily complected, there's no humiliation at all.”

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  • “From the moment they arrive in South Africa Breyten and Yolande, he swarthily handsome, she delicately beautiful, are dogged by the press.”

    From 'Summertime': Notebooks 1972–1975

  • “She envisaged an anonymous manly hand, creeping swarthily through Nora's steely curls.”

    The Wall Street Journal: 'Playing with the Grown-ups'

  • “She slapped the insect against her side mightily, with a gesture like a very fat man swarthily admiring his own girth.”

    Simon & Schuster: Full-Blooded Fantasy

  • “The duenna looked swarthily formidable, the housekeeper meek, and the secretary nearsighted.”

    In the Garden of Iden

  • “He smiled explosively, changing suddenly from nondescript to swarthily good-looking.”

    Cachalot

  • “He was sitting there this afternoon – a little old man, sadly twisted with rheumatism; his head was abnormally large, thatched with long, wiry black hair; his face was heavily lined and swarthily sunburned; his eyes were deep-set and black, with occasional peculiar golden flashes in them.”

    Chronicles of Avonlea

  • “He was sitting there this afternoon -- a little old man, sadly twisted with rheumatism; his head was abnormally large, thatched with long, wiry black hair; his face was heavily lined and swarthily sunburned; his eyes were deep-set and black, with occasional peculiar golden flashes in them.”

    Chronicles of Avonlea

  • “Trees with reddened stems stood about the valley, scattered and in groups, showing between their leaves the cheeks of melancholy fruits swarthily tinged, and toward the centre of the valley a shining palace was visible, supported by massive columns of marble reddened by that copper sun.”

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete

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