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Example sentences for: nigger
How can you use “nigger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The Post notes that "niggardly" is etymologically completely unrelated to "nigger" (it has Middle English roots and means stingy) and says that if in fact the man used the word innocently and in its correct context, then the loss of his job is "truly remarkable."
(Too, our locals refer unashamedly to nigger hair which, to date, I cannot.)
A short list is not impossible, for it would join words like nigger, kike, mackerelsnapper , and others.
When I was a lad, the word nigger was taboo in the US, but it was used freely till recently in Britain (meaning `any dark-skinned person'): the word Negro (with a capital N ) was carefully used instead.
And sometimes ironically or defiantly people will call themselves by names intended to be pejorative or downright insulting, as when African Americans call each other nigger or Jews of Odessa call one of their folk heroes Poltorazhida `Yid-and-a-half.
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