colour-proud
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
Example Sentences
- "To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen."
- "Lace had at the back of his mind a desire to go combo. He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district. But at first it had been kept in check by what he called his Sense of Decency. Not that he was a prude. Apparently he was only colour-proud."
- "2007, Lena Crabbe in Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 36, https://books.google.ca/books?id=izfgb7WGC7oC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false His parents were colour proud and they didn't want him knocking around with Nyungars […]"
Inflected Forms
more colour-proud (comparative)
most colour-proud (superlative)
colour proud (alternative)
color-proud (alternative)
color proud (alternative)