See niggerish on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1886, Michael Magaul, Eli Robinson McCall, No-history Versus No-war or The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed, page 261:",
"text": "[T]hey should specially avoid the fanatics who […] have temporarily changed a federal republic into a sort of niggerish monarchy or empire […]",
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"ref": "1958, “Talking About”, in Jet, volume 14, number 3, page 47:",
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"ref": "2006 August 22, goodbu...@gmail.com, “POLLING”, in alt.music.white-power (Usenet):",
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