Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a swarthy hue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
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- adverb In a
swarthy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A different elevator operator came up this time, a swarthily handsome Italian man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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A different elevator operator came up this time, a swarthily handsome Italian man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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A different elevator operator came up this time, a swarthily handsome Italian man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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A different elevator operator came up this time, a swarthily handsome Italian man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Heck, if the guilty parties are even tiniest bit swarthily complected, there's no humiliation at all.
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Heck, if the guilty parties are even tiniest bit swarthily complected, there's no humiliation at all.
Archive 2009-08-09 SeattleDan 2009
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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 Coetzee, J.M. 2009
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She envisaged an anonymous manly hand, creeping swarthily through Nora's steely curls.
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She slapped the insect against her side mightily, with a gesture like a very fat man swarthily admiring his own girth.
Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005
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She slapped the insect against her side mightily, with a gesture like a very fat man swarthily admiring his own girth.
Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005
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