deniggerize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.
Offensive; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves […]"
- "But Al had accused Holly of going beyond the wishing to live the delusion that she had escaped the trap of blackness and had become an adored equal in a racist white world that considered her deniggerized and no longer tainted […]"
- "Included in Killens's attempt to change or deniggerize the world was a continual verbal assault on literary, media, and educational establishments relative to their collectively abysmal record of promoting positive Black images."
- "In some areas black schools were integrated only after insulting efforts to 'deniggerize' the school were carried out (replacement of all toilet seats, fumigation of the school, etc."
Etymology
From de- + niggerize.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de