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Negroid   Listen
adjective
Negroid  adj.  
1.
Characteristic of the negro.
2.
Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.






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"Negroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Azuma-zi was beyond ethnology. He was, perhaps, more negroid than anything else, though his hair was curly rather than frizzy, and his nose had a bridge. Moreover, his skin was brown rather than black, and the whites of his eyes were yellow. His broad cheek-bones ...
— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... cook, from the evidence of one or two tradespeople who have caught a glimpse of him through the window, was a man of most remarkable appearance—being a huge and hideous mulatto, with yellowish features of a pronounced negroid type. This man has been seen since the crime, for he was detected and pursued by Constable Walters on the same evening, when he had the audacity to revisit Wisteria Lodge. Inspector Baynes, considering that such a visit ...
— The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge • Arthur Conan Doyle

... of his square hut inside the compound, squatted Zalu Zako. The lips and nose were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a mixed Bantu-Somali race. In colour his skin had the red of bronze rather than the blue of the negro, and the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the worn ivory ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... you one characteristic incident of the cruise from a semi-naval point of view. One night we were going ashore in Anaho Bay; the most awful noise on deck; the breakers distinctly audible in the cabin; and there I had to sit below, entertaining in my best style a negroid native chieftain, much the worse for rum! You can ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Oriental; he isn't a European; he isn't negroid or Indian; but there is something about him that makes one thing of all of these, singly and collectively. His body is twisted and grotesque, and when one looks at his face, one feels a desire to touch him, to swear eternal fealty ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various



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