Niggerly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Niggerly is an adjective meaning (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Niggerlike.
Meaning
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Niggerlike.
Example Sentences
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.
He was a wild black beast who raped my mother. […] Ever since I can remember he's been in a nigger pose of agony. He is the wilderness. He speaks niggerly groveling about wanting to touch me with his black hand.
And again: to be niggerly is not necessarily to be niggardly. It is niggerly for instance to single out Fannie Stearns Davis for dispraise, but it can't be called niggardly to name nobody else in the world but to praise them.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include niggery, niggerous, niggerfied, niggerfuxated, nigger-rigged, niggish.
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