colored

IPA: kˈʌɫɝd

(American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
(South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
(laundry) A colored article of clothing.

(American spelling) Having a color.
Having a particular color or kind of color.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
(US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
(South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”) [(American spelling) Having a color.]

Examples of "colored" in Sentences

I picked a red colored paint from the store.
˜colored™ because it is impossible for something to be red and not colored.
It's an absurd reaction to the phrase 'colored people' but is, in effect, the same thing.
In some parts of Africa, the word colored is applied to those of mixed white and black ancestry.
It is inconceivable to me how a person can add syllables to the word "colored," yet Howard found a way.
Additionally, what he failed to consider is that this country has made the term "colored" inappropriate because of the social and cultural context with which it was used.
According to journalist Clifton Johnson in 1904, the word was used to refer to blacks in the South and was chosen primarily for it's derogatory value, being considered more offensive than the term "colored," another term commonly used to refer to people of African descent at the time.
I said somewhere in the early part of this narrative that because the colored man looked at everything through the prism of his relationship to society as a _colored_ man, and because most of his mental efforts ran through the narrow channel bounded by his rights and his wrongs, it was to be wondered at that he has progressed so broadly as he has.