Meaning of niggerly | Babel Free

Definitions

Niggerlike.

derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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