Klansman
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- noun
- /ˈklænzmən/
- Offensive
- Albert Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, and former Klansman Robert Byrd were three of the Democrats who opposed the bill.
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Watch on YouTubeHe played a Ku Klux Klansman in the Birth of a Nation.
- He played a Ku Klux Klansman in the Birth of a Nation.
- And on the way there, she tells me that he's a Klansman and, and that he is a fireman, Frederick County fireman.
- And then let's imagine that a Ku Klux Klansman comes up to me after my talk and says, oh, you have now hurt my feelings.
- If you're a Klansman who believes in lynching and you're a student and you come into class wearing a hood and you're sitting next to a black kid, that kid can't learn.
- But starting talking to each other and respecting the other person, it made it almost impossible for the Klansman to disrespect him.
- So the FBI hired the Grim Reaper to, to torture a Klansman to get the to, to find out who the, the murderers were.
Examples
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The hooded Klansman said the good, white Christians would not stand for his troublemaking and told him to get out of town.
Fiction book (1992) -
His uncles and brothers were Klansmen, his father was a Klansman, even his grandfather.
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What are you, a Klansman or something?
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Why did you become a Klansman?
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Though the Army again took power, the Klansmen knew they had lost this battle and yet won the war.
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This is the former Klansman who led the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act.
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Every Klansman in Dixie is headed for Little Rock.
Fiction book (2001) -
Ables, a notorious white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klansman, has been charged with firing the shot that killed Bascombe.
Fiction book (1995) -
The former Klansman spoke about his regrets after leaving the hate group.
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In a controversial election, a Klansman ran for public office, raising concerns among community leaders.
Synonyms
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A person who dislikes or treats people of other races unfairly
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A person who believes one race is better than others and wants that race to have power
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A person who thinks white people are better than other races and should control society
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A person who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist group
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A person who belongs to the Ku Klux Klan, a secret racist group in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Klansman comes from the name Ku Klux Klan, which mixes an old Greek word kuklos meaning 'circle' and the word clan meaning 'family' or 'group'. So a Klansman is literally someone in that closed 'circle', which explains why it means a member of the Klan.