niggerly
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 8
Definition of niggerly
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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.”
“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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Etymology
From nigger + -ly.
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