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dark figure
noun
The estimated number of unreported criminal cases; the dark figure of crime.
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"He's quite a dark figure in the game.
A dark figure moving soundlessly in the shadows.
Mr. Skakel has long been portrayed as a dark figure, even a presumed killer.
A dark figure seems to be restlessly moving against a white ground.
In the distance, a dark figure flitted by the window of a lobby.
The number of uncounted murders, known as the "dark figure," is thought to be quite small.
One shows JFK as a dark figure, bent over a desk.
The Home Office described the estimate as a "dark figure" that may not have come to the NCA's attention.
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Dark figures, silhouettes, flitted about.
Nothing is really happening but dark figures moving through dark rooms.
The bloody twins, the scarecrow; these are dark figures from your own psyche.
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