swarthy

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The call for laborers brought a new and strange class of people to its streets--swarthy, chattering persons with long backs, and short legs, of frugal habits, yet, after all, leaving much silver in the town on the Saturday night which followed payday Symes's domestic life was moving as smoothly and as satisfactorily as his business affairs.

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  1. adjective Having a dark complexion or color.

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  • And there was some kind of a swarthy, athletic-lookin' guy in the car with her. —  054 - Ost
  • Short, swarthy, and pudgy, Asher wore what appeared to be a permanent five o'clock shadow and an expensive suit that looked as though he'd slept in it. —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • The ice was broken and she came over and sat down beside me She was an ugly little thing, swarthy, and of a Jewish cast of features; but she had beautiful shoulders, and when she turned on her ingratiating smile and displayed her beautiful white teeth one forgot her facial defects. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • In a moment the river was alive with nondescript craft, worked by amphibious creatures, half naked, swarthy, and grim, who rent the air with shrill, wild jargon as they scrambled toward us. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • They live among clouds of infalling mass -- swarthy, shredding under a hail of radiation: infrared spikes, cutting gamma rays. —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of swarty, from swart.

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  1. A corrupt and now more common form of swarty.
  2. from swarthy, adjective
 

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/ˈswɔrθi/
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