CE ÎNSEAMNĂ NIGGARDLY ÎN ENGLEZĂ?
Controversele despre cuvântul "niggardly"
În Statele Unite, au existat mai multe controverse cu privire la cuvântul "niggardly", un adjectiv care înseamnă "zgârcit" sau "mizerabil", din cauza asemănării sale fonetice cu "negrul ras". Etimologic cele două cuvinte nu au legătură.
Definiția niggardly în dicționarul Engleză
Prima definiție a niggardly în dicționar este zgârcită sau neregenerată. O altă definiție a niggardului este slabă. Niggardly este, de asemenea, înțepenit; cu parere de rau.
CĂRȚI ÎN ENGLEZĂ ÎN LEGĂTURĂ CU «NIGGARDLY»
Descoperă întrebuințarea
niggardly în următoarea selecție bibliografică. Cărți în legătură cu
niggardly și extrase din aceasta pentru a furniza contextul de întrebuințare al acestuia în literatura Engleză.
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Stop Being
Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People ...
Refreshingly candid and challenging, certain to get people everywhere talking, this is the book that takes on race in a new—yet also historically revered and simply stated—way that can change lives, both personally and collectively.
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An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the ...
tb some; meaning they were niggardly, &c., one to another]. (Msb, r) I) 3. ,A [11¢ a
niggardly, tenacious, &c., as above, with me, of such a thing]. (A.) [The inf. n.] [in
the CK erroneously written Kai-Lth] is syn. with TA :) hence the saying, u?
Edward William Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole,
1872
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
tory of niggardly and serve as a benc hmark of hypersensitivity. Around the same
time, however, an even more alarming incident involving niggardly occurred at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where a professor used the word during
a ...
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
Sensitivity about nigger has led to the avoidance of the unrelated adjective
niggardly. In 1999 David Howard, who worked in the mayor's office in
Washington DC, used the word during a meeting. Rumours circulated that he had
used a racist ...
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The Methodist messenger
James Niggardly was worth ,£508 a year ! There was a time when he was worth
a good deal more than that — worth more than all the ciphers that you could tack
on to it. It was, when he had been an earnest attendant at the prayer-meeting, ...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository
Sunday still found James Niggardly usually in his place at Tattingham Chapel.
There he sat in the one crimson-curtained pew just inside the door, 'with his wife
and three daughters. Even on " Collection Sundays " they 'were all there — each
...
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Buddhist Legends: Introd., synopses, trans. of books 1 and 2
5 we read of another miser, a rich man named Niggardly. One day he saw a half -
starved countryman eating a round cake stuffed with sour gruel. The sight made
him hungry; but for fear that, if he said anything to his wife, many others might ...
Eugene Watson Burlingame, Charles Rockwell Lanman,
1921
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New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies
In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems, So
the proportions of defence are fill'd ; Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting A little cloth. ' Which, of a weak ...
Henry Halford Vaughan,
1881
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Harvard Oriental Series
5 we read of another miser, a rich man named Niggardly. One day he saw a half-
starved countryman eating a round cake stuffed with sour gruel. The sight made
him hungry; but for fear that, if he said anything to his wife, many others might ...
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Niggar Man Jigga Man Belafone Never Nigga Me:
Niggardly Attitude
I'M A NIGGA HE IS A NIGGA TOO
King Dan Edward Knight Sr., Dan Edward Knight,
2013
ȘTIRI NOI CARE INCLUD TERMENUL «NIGGARDLY»
Află ce ziare naționale și internaționale au scris despre și cum este întrebuințat termenul
niggardly în contextul următoarelor știri.
Identifying the poor
This is a cautious — and therefore liberal — approach to identifying the poor. By contrast, a conservative (or crabbed and niggardly) approach ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Iul 15»
This policeman needs help
One may receive a niggardly P10,000.00 (US$220.00) regardless of the length of time of unjust incarceration but the victim must have been ... «ABS CBN News, Iul 15»
Berko: Broker's fine though his rule is folly
And because this broker works for a good discount house, the commission would be niggardly. I think there's a 60-40 chance those 10 ... «The Columbian, Iul 15»
How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity
An administrator in Washington, D.C.'s Office of the Public Advocate had to resign in 1999 for using the word niggardly in a staff meeting. At the ... «Wall Street Journal, Iul 15»
Pension anomalies: Variable cost of living allowance fiasco
Bank of Ceylon adopts the 50% of the deceased spouses' pension and we in People's Bank extend only a niggardly 20% and on top of it the ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Iul 15»
Chili and essentialism
Niggardly comes from a Scandinavian word meaning “stingy,” but its sound resembles a racial slur, which has turned it into what Bryan Garner ... «Baltimore Sun, Iul 15»
PF money & stock markets
... from abroad including retirement is cited as proof that Indian authorities have so far been niggardly and out of step with the rest of the world. «Hindu Business Line, Iul 15»
Hitting the old mindsets
... and are niggardly toward accepting the individuality of women for what it is. The case that yielded the historic judgment concerned a mother ... «The Northlines, Iul 15»
ALEX BRUMMER says British firms should welcome rise in living …
Indeed, there was a disgracefully niggardly attitude towards workforces who had stoically borne the burden of recession and, until last year, ... «Daily Mail, Iul 15»
SC transcends old mindsets
... are driven by a patriarchal and feudal mindset on the whole, and are niggardly toward accepting the individuality of women for what it is. «The Asian Age, Iul 15»