Citations:saditty

English citations of saditty, siditty, siddity, and seddity

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• 1907, Nelson Lloyd, “The last ghost in Harmony”, in Scribner's Magazine‎^[1], volume 41, page 290:

  As I have stated, he was excited and his sigh shook a little, but he was full of dignity and sadity.

• 1967, Jet Magazine, July 20, 1967

  Not only was Eartha, who is considered "seditty" by many Negroes, an eloquent Capital Hill spokesman for those young Dee Cee "rebels with a cause," but the volatile singer-actress is now laying elaborate plans to build a huge trade school for Negroes and other minorities somewhere between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that will "train them for real jobs that are attainable."

• 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 62:

  St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very siditty, and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks' enunciation.

• 1971, National Office for Black Catholics, Freeing the Spirit, page 40:

  I may be fluent in siditty "Standard English" and hold a high post in a big corporation, or I may be foreman over a white crew at a largely white manufacturing plant;

• 1982, “The Message”, performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

  She went to the city and got so, so saditty / She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

• 1985 June 10, Dennis A. Williams, “Roots III: Souls on Ice”, in Newsweek, page 82:

  The clubs lost favor in the power-to-the-people '60s because they were seen as "seditty" cliques of high-toned folks trying to mimic whites.

• 1988, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “What's in a name? Some meanings of blackness”, in Dissent, volume 36, page 494:

  "Oh, yeah," he said, after a long pause, looking at me through the eyes of the race when one of us is being "sadiddy," or telling some kind of racial lie.

• 1997, Wil Haygood, The Haygoods of Columbus, page 122:

  "Seddity" was one of my mother's favorite words for her enemies. Once she had marked someone as seddity, that was pretty much it; it was their scarlet letter as far as she was concerned.

• 2000, Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

  She described herself as “naïve” and “sheltered,” and said that her friends affectionately called her “sadity,” an old black vernacular term for snobbish.

• 2004, Darrious D. Hilmon, Divalicious

  That doesn’t mean she has to speak so sadity.

• 2006, Teresa Seals, Taylor Made

  A perfect word for her: Sadity. Most people perceive her as arrogant, but when she opens her mouth, you can tell the girl is straight from the hood.

• 2010 November 8, Hilton Als, “Color Vision; Ntozake Shange's outspoken art.”, in The New Yorker, volume 86, page 42:

  Shange could talk "street" and "siddity." She was the daughter that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man would never have imagined fathering.

• 2017 October 28, Ellen Jones, “Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV”, in The Guardian, TELEVISION & RADIO:

  [Emma Dabiri] says. “It resolves a tension where being perceived as too middle class was seen as acting white or ‘sidity’, and often associated with being light-skinned. As opposed to the one-dimensionality that was once imposed, blackness today is being understood far more for its multiplicities.”

• 2023 August 3, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Woman to Woman”, in The New Yorker, Flash Fiction:

  The mother and daughter went to church at Mt. Calvary, where the siddity Negroes worshipped and sang true hymns, instead of lining-out spirituals.