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  • Worse, the adjective is pejorative: "Waspy" is reserved for horse-faced women, tight-assed men, penny-pinchers, and a cappella groups.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Biddle, a Waspy, cerebral military strategist who taught at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explained that the main problem in Iraq was not an anti-American insurgency but a “communal civil war.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Huffington campaigned for her husband whose Waspy surname allowed her to shed her Greek moniker for good and developed a strong taste for the conservative revolution that swept through American politics after the 1994 midterm elections.

    Arianna Huffington: The cheque's in the Post 2011

  • Biddle, a Waspy, cerebral military strategist who taught at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explained that the main problem in Iraq was not an anti-American insurgency but a “communal civil war.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Biddle, a Waspy, cerebral military strategist who taught at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explained that the main problem in Iraq was not an anti-American insurgency but a “communal civil war.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The home page looks like it was developed to cater to the Waspy and Faux Waspy sets alike.

    Courtney Cachet: Gilt Finds Company... Which Flash Sale Site Fits Your Style? Courtney Cachet 2011

  • Biddle, a Waspy, cerebral military strategist who taught at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explained that the main problem in Iraq was not an anti-American insurgency but a “communal civil war.”

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • At Waspy Williams College, where his main interests were drinking and chasing coeds, he briefly became engaged to an Irish girl in a bald attempt to anger his parents.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • At Waspy Williams College, where his main interests were drinking and chasing coeds, he briefly became engaged to an Irish girl in a bald attempt to anger his parents.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • At Waspy Williams College, where his main interests were drinking and chasing coeds, he briefly became engaged to an Irish girl in a bald attempt to anger his parents.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

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