Synonyms on the website include dirty’, ‘depressing’, ‘inhuman’, ‘devlish’, and ‘monstrous’.
Nyshayla Barnes, a 20-year-old university student opened up the conversation, saying: ‘There are offensive words in the dictionary associated with the definition of ‘Black’.
‘Rather than making words, such as “depressing”, “threatening” and “foreboding” synonymous with Black, we should instead use words that do not insinuate a biased undertone to a word that is commonly used to describe people of Black race and culture. Others shared the same sentiments and urged Dictionary.com to evaluate the message they were sending out.
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