(1) He did not even tell his loyal and long-suffering wife Grace, always known as Darkie, who found out about it second hand.
(2) But you can't update a person in the same way as you can a film or a work of literature, scrubbing out the "gippos" and the "darkies" nestling there in their lexicon, hooked firmly on to their history like a tic on a cat.
(3) "The memorabilia gives you a much better understanding of how one set of images of black people was constantly reinforced - the lazy sleeping darkie, the eternal laughter, and on and on."
(4) In Maclean – a northern New South Wales town on the banks of the Clarence river, where racist epithets like “coons” and “darkies” can still be heard in everyday banter – Norma, an Indigenous woman, and Attwater, a white concreter, had bonded for years over alcohol.
(5) As late as 1989, Colgate-Palmolive was producing a toothpaste for sale in Asia called "Darkie", which bore the image of a smiling black man.
Sarky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
(2) Someone at In Style is doubtless now wondering why they were sent a letter full of sarkiness and references to 80s movies.
(3) Direct observation and physiologic monitoring show that the Sarkis engage in more frequent and extended periods of heavy labor.
(4) B. T. Rocha, C. F. Mello, J. J. F. Sarkis and R. D. Dias, British Journal of Nutrition, 63:273-283, 1990).
(5) Intrapopulation differences aside, comparison of Sarkis and non-Sarkis with other samples reveals that both lie within the reported range of variation.
(6) The members of the Sarki caste have lower heart rates and systolic blood pressure, relative to other castes, at each of three submaximal workloads and during recovery from bicycle ergometer exercise.
(7) The BBC governors' programme complaints committee also ruled that the broadcast was not in breach of internal guidelines, though one governor, Angela Sarkis, broke ranks and said she "profoundly disagreed".
(8) The Sarkis in this study fall between Phases 2 and 3, as indicated by the total fertility rate (TFR).
(9) 3 sub-groups are studied: high caste (Brahmin and Chetri) urban residents, high caste urban fringe residents, and low caste untouchables (Sarki).
(10) By the age of 23, she was 15 stone and starring as tardy, sarky Twinkle in Dinnerladies (“All right, keep your scrotum on,” she would tell canteen manager Tony).
(11) 9.15pm GMT Simon Jordan, speaking on Sky Sports News, has just made a sarky quip about the generosity of Christoper Samba returning from Anzhi to selflessly help QPR's relegation fight.