English Dictionary

swarthy

/ˈswɔɹði/

adj

Tawny, dusky, dark. / Dark-skinned; Black. / Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan. / (nonstandard) Evil, malicious. / (nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

He had a swarthy complexion.

意味（1）

Tawny, dusky, dark.

意味（2）

Dark-skinned; Black.

Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.

意味（3）

Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan.

the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People

意味（4）

(nonstandard) Evil, malicious.

意味（5）

(nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

Mason: "Okay, how do I look, really?"

Betty: "…'Swarthy.'"

Mason: "Well, is that good?"

Betty: "Depends if you like 'swarthy.'"

Mason: "Do you like 'swarthy'?"

Mason: Okay, how do I look, really? Betty: …'Swarthy.' Mason: Well, is that good? Betty: Depends if you like 'swarthy.' Mason: Do you like 'swarthy'? Betty: Not particularly.