Sentence examples for Chinaman from inspiring English sources

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The word "Chinaman" is considered outdated and offensive and should not be used in written English. It is associated with a long history of discrimination against the Chinese people and carries an underlying tone of prejudice. A more appropriate term would be “Chinese man” or “Chinese person”. For example, "The Chinese person crossed the street to buy a cup of tea".

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Chinaman

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A left arm unorthodox spin bowler

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He emerged from Cambridge, he said, an "Anglicised Chinaman", and only discarded his forename Harry (given to him by his grandfather "who was thoroughly convinced that the white man was superior") when he concluded that it accorded ill with a nationalist, anti-imperialist leader.

She may also be accustomed to a more permissive environment; her right-hand man and confidante, Carlos Zannini, is nicknamed "El Chino" ("The Chinaman") because of the Maoist leanings he had in the nineteen-seventies.

119th over: England 372-6 (Stewart 31, Giles 10) The left-arm chinaman bowler Paul Adams takes up the attack from the Radcliffe Road End, and Giles rocks back to cut him for a single to deep point.

He could explain everything with authority, from the chinaman to the Duckworth-Lewis formula, but without any trace of ego.

And that's before you throw in the 235 Test wickets from an extraordinary range of bowling styles – the slow left-arm that got him his debut at 17 years 245 days, left-arm chinaman and left-arm fast-medium good enough that he sometimes took the new ball ahead of Wes Hall or Charlie Griffith, and his predatory, cobra-quick fielding.

Those closer to him call him "El Chino" (the Chinaman), for his Maoist leanings during the 1970s.Her only other confidant is her son, Máximo, a college dropout who lives in the far reaches of Patagonia, in the Kirchners' home state.

A "Recadi Chinaman" entered Venezuelan vocabulary to describe a scapegoat, a reference to the only person ever convicted in connection with what became a massive scam.

The suspected killer is one Jean-Claude Bonnal, known as "the Chinaman", from his origins in Vietnam.

But since the wealthy chairman of Zhongkun, a property-development company, made his bid for a vast plot of land, making up 0.3% of the island's land mass, to build a hotel development, he has become known simply as Kinverjinn (the Chinaman).For some, Mr Huang is just the type of investor the troubled Icelandic economy needs as it fights its way up from the 2008 slump.

Icebox's "Mr Wong" is a slitty-eyed old Chinaman having an affair with a Caucasian girl of dubious morals.

He made his screen debut as a treacherous Chinaman in the adventure film China Corsair (1951), starring Jon Hall, and similarly menacing roles in The Mob (1952) and The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) preceded his memorable "Fatso".

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