Sentence examples for exaggerated dialect from inspiring English sources

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After the war (and after Europe's death in 1919), Sissle and Blake went into vaudeville, becoming the first African American musical act to perform professionally neither wearing blackface-minstrelsy makeup nor using an exaggerated dialect.

— The same white nationalist organization released another robocall that features a man pretending to be Gillum and speaking in an exaggerated dialect.

"We Negroes … done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an stone," says a man using a stereotypically exaggerated dialect and pretending to be Gillum.

"We Negroes … done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone," says a man's voice with a stereotypically exaggerated dialect while drums and jungle noises play in the background.

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Speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect, an actor pretends to be Gillum, saying: "Well hello there.

Though Kerry was actually a hunter, the sight of a Boston patrician speaking in an exaggerated rural dialect was seen by many rural Americans as disingenuous, patronizing and downright insulting.

He, his white wife and their daughter interact with the blackface family — Mammy, Zip, Sambo, Jim and the "pickaninny" Topsy — as the Crows engage in a variety of outrageous acts involving watermelons, their genitals, falling-down pants and exaggerated antebellum dialects.

Mr. Smith, speaking in exaggerated Southern black dialect, seems to have strolled out of the last five minutes of Spike Lee's "Bamboozled," a brief, painful anthology of the ways African-American performers have been mocked and demeaned in the movies of the past.

"The use of an exaggerated, stereotypical 'black' dialect was definitely part of the blackface performance tradition," said Noah Arceneaux, a professor of media studies at San Diego State University.

She speaks with a somewhat exaggerated, but fake, Chicano dialect and is known to have some issues involving what she sees as her overly large beak.

Pattinson too spent long hours hammering out an accent -- it's somewhere between an exaggerated Southern drawl, an Australian outback dialect and Lennie Small -- that even he assumes (not incorrectly) can't always be understood.

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