Definitions
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- adj. having negro features racially. Pertaining to the racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
- n. A person with negroid characteristics.
Etymologies
Examples
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He stands in a measure intermediate between the nomad Pygmies of the forest and the desert, and the mixed races who may be called negroid but cannot strictly be called negro.
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Early photographs do show him looking somewhat negroid, with noticeably wiry hair.
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* Technically*, of course, it's just a mispronunciation of 'negro', which itself came from negroid.
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Legion of Horror@205 said, those cities all have significantly high negroid (sic) populations too.
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Legion of Honor says: drhunt1, those cities all have significantly high negroid populations too.
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He took to straightening his hair, getting rid of any semblance to the negroid curl.
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Shayne aka Cigna says: cch sharpton says: wildweasel, I see the commonality that you are referring to: middle eastern, negroid features.
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The winter tanning beds are overtaken - the blondes turn negroid - the jocks, still freckled, turn red now.
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Take a Caucasoid population, move it into an equatorial region, give it a little time, and natural selection will restore many of the characteristics that we consider negroid.
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And in a society where one drop of "black" blood would be sufficient to classify you as "negroid," that distinction, between "race" and "ethnicity" has been the linchpin of how power has been distributed in this country.
Raymond Leon Roker: My View of The Atlantic's "The End of White America?"
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