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race-baity

race-baity adjective: involving race baiting.

Adjective

race-baity (comparative race-baitier, superlative race-baitiest)

  1. (informal) Involving race baiting.
    • Has Drudge Become More Race-Baity? Here Are the Numbers.2013 September 5, Mimi Dwyer, Julia Fisher, “(title)”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022
    • It's a fairly paralyzing time to be a guilty white American liberal. With Donald Trump elected on the basis of one of the race-baitiest presidential campaigns in modern American history, Republicans firmly in power, and mounting evidence that progress toward racial equality has been stalled out for...2017 January 3, Jesse Singal, “Guilty White Liberals Are Purchasing Racial Indulgences”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023

Forms of race-baity

comparativerace-baitier
superlativerace-baitiest

Origin of race-baity

From race-bait + -y.

Questions about race-baity

What does race-baity mean?
Race-baity means involving race baiting.
What part of speech is race-baity?
Race-baity is an adjective.

Words near race-baity in the dictionary

  1. race-baiter
  2. race-baiters
  3. race-baitier
  4. race-baitiest
  5. race-baits
  6. race-baity
  7. race-bending
  8. race-blind
  9. race-blindness
  10. race-fellow
  11. race-fellows

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