play the race card
Definition
› UK disapproving to try to win an election by saying unfair things about people from another raceRacial issuesRace and ethnicity › US disapproving to mention someone's race in order to influence the way people think about themRacial issuesRace and ethnicity
(Definition of play the race card from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alien adjective
- alien noun
- anti-Semitic adjective
- anti-Semitism noun
- color line noun
- communal adjective (IN A COMMUNITY)
- ethnic cleansing noun
- ethnic minority noun
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- foreigner noun
- ghetto noun
- minority noun (PEOPLE)
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- non-racist adjective
- race relations noun
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