Niggerly

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Niggerlike. derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

    "a nice, clean, tidy, healthy little city, with a native population neither so thoroughly niggerly, nude and nidorous as it was when my lines were cast there."

Example

More examples

"a nice, clean, tidy, healthy little city, with a native population neither so thoroughly niggerly, nude and nidorous as it was when my lines were cast there."

Etymology

From nigger + -ly.

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