How to sign: showing a brooding ill humor "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper;
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How to sign: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education";
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How to sign: causing dejection "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather";
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How to sign: having skin rich in melanin pigments "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples";
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