racially challenged
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.
American usage
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged.
Example Sentences
- "He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses."
- "Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated"."
- ""You must have quite a powerful mind for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment. "What do you mean, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess all wizards have to be white […]""
- "[…] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin."
- "And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission."
- "It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want nonwhite Americans to share in the coming cornucopia."
Usage
- American usage