kinky
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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
The word kinks has many connotations, everything from a kink in a rope, or kinky being quirky, which was really the main thing behind it.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
For generations, many Black people had viewed their naturally kinky hair as a liability, and either trimmed it close to the scalp or straightened it, often using painfully caustic chemicals to do so.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
The next time it’s asked to weigh in on issues of kinky coils, Bantu knots, twist-outs and dreads, the court may have an in-house expert.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
She was about my age, with short, kinky hair and chocolate-colored skin that appeared iridescent in the soft glow of the dashboard indicators.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The hair at the nape of the neck, which is typically shorter, kinkier and considered more difficult to style.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2023
If you have a kinkier, coarser hair texture, you can easily spend three or four hours on what we call “wash day.”
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
They are beyond square, which is to say that they are stranger, kinkier and more interestingly individual than David, Rose, Kenny or Casey.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
But just as a botanical insurrection seems imminent —a sort of “Rise of the Planet of the Azaleas” — things take a kinkier and daffier turn.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2012
Did he have Hope and Dell's loose curls or my tighter, kinkier hair?
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
