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niggerly

niggerly adjective: niggerlike.

Adjective

niggerly (comparative more niggerly, superlative most niggerly)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) Niggerlike.
    • 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.1885, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society, volume 47, page 289
    • 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.1988, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Reading Race

Forms of niggerly

comparativemore niggerly
superlativemost niggerly

Origin of niggerly

From nigger + -ly.

Questions about niggerly

What does niggerly mean?
Niggerly means niggerlike.
What part of speech is niggerly?
Niggerly is an adjective.

Words near niggerly in the dictionary

  1. niggerling
  2. niggerlings
  3. niggerlips
  4. niggerlover
  5. niggerlovers
  6. niggerly
  7. niggerman
  8. niggermen
  9. niggerness
  10. niggerologist
  11. niggerologists

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