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Synonyms for complexion

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Synonyms for complexion

skin tone, especially of the face

the combination of emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities that distinguishes an individual

a person's customary manner of emotional response

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Synonyms for complexion

a combination that results from coupling or interlinking

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a point of view or general attitude or inclination

texture and appearance of the skin of the face

(obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament

give a certain color to

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Also, in all probability the Harappans were dark complexioned. Yeh kya fair and lovely bias hai?Everyone knows the the (migrating) Aryans had a fair complexion.Not the Harappans.
The daughter of a Boston janitor and the descendant of slaves, Hemmings was light complexioned enough to pass as white, and she was even voted class beauty.
During the debate on the insurance bill in the Rajya Sabha last week, he spoke on Indian's obsession for fair skin and said: "Your god is dark like Ravi Shankar Prasad, but your matrimonial ads insist on white-skinned brides." On Monday Yadav defended his remarks saying, "What have I said...'saanvli' (dark complexioned) women are more in number in India, they are more in number the world over.
Another dimension of TCs misuse is its cosmetic application particularly in combination with bleaching creams to make the skin fair among dark complexioned people.
One was fair complexioned, mustached and tall and the other was brown, clean-shaven with intense eyes.
Police said the fair complexioned baby, apparently aged two days, was found by a worker of the cafeteria.
On the face of it the suspect seems to be a fair complexioned male in his twenties.
Lemons extensively references The Quest in a literary commentary form, which serves as a fictional portrayal of a darker complexioned woman as a protagonist in contrast to the emerging literary convention of the using a solely as the heroine fair skinned women.
He was amazed to learn there were Christians and Jews, not just "whites"; then discovered a local mosque filled with light complexioned Bosnian Muslims.
But the alabaster complexioned Robert Pattinson (above, with Kristen) indeed takes a shine to her, perhaps sensing a kindred moony spirit.
The Wicked Witch was all a witch should be - green- complexioned, murderous and flanked by some truly chilling sidekicks.
In the study, scientists and doctors sought to measure the extent of inflammation in dark complexioned individuals versus light complexioned individuals using non-invasive tape-strip sampling.
As the head of a Curazaleno community organization in the 1930s, who also spoke fluent Spanish, he worked with, and was a friend of the dark complexioned brothers, Joaquin and Jesus Colon--important Puerto Rican/Latin@ community leaders in Brooklyn from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.