Niggerly
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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