to miscegenate

Examples

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• You's miscegenated.

  O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

• All you boys is miscegenated!

  O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

• Freyre argued further that Portuguese men had been predisposed culturally to miscegenate with women of color and to adapt to foreign cultures.

  Academic text (1997)

• As an example of changing the rule structure and those who make it, we must recognize these miscegenating women as committing violations of equal magnitude to rapists or pedophiles.

  Blog text (23)

• "Those damn darkies are going to miscegenate all of us into mongrels!" may not explicitly contradict the non-aggression principle or minarchism, but I find it hard to imagine a person actually combining such disparate outlooks.

  Blog text (10)

• In the past, many laws prohibited people from miscegenating across racial lines.

• Historical records show that some communities actively discouraged their members from miscegenating with others.

• The debate over whether to allow miscegenation highlighted deep-seated racial tensions in society.

Synonyms

I

to intermarry

vsto miscegenate

4 6.5

To marry someone from the same social group or from a different one

is specific to unions between different races and used in historical contexts

Antonyms

S

to segregate

• Offensive

67 6.8

To keep people apart and treat them differently because of race, religion, or gender

Surface Forms

Etymology