Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. White as a lily.
- adj. Beyond reproach; blameless.
- adj. Informal Excluding or seeking to exclude Black people.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- White as a lily.
Wiktionary
- adj. A shade of the color white.
- adj. Pure, unblemished, immaculate.
- adj. Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
- adj. slang Restricted to Caucasians; pejorative in describing a white person, as are white-bread and paleface.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a pure white color
- adj. restricted to whites only
Examples
“The same reason that people “flee” lily-white Massachusetts and Connecticut, and move to North Carolina and Florida.”
Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
“If ever there was a case of blatant discrimination, it has been in the disproportionate allocation of Hostess marketing dollars to the lily-white Twinkie and the benign neglect of the chocolate Ho Ho.”
The Huffington Post: Al Checchi: Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Rise and Fall of the Twinkie
“Also, I could speak Spanish pretty decently and was looking for a place very different from Jenison, Michigan -- the lily-white suburb where I had grown up.”
“Nay, pale youth, so lily-white,' I chortled, waving the copy paper; 'not the bounce, but a detail.”
“If anything, the Batman comics bend over backwards to dodge the image of lily-white Bruce Wayne facing down scary inner-city black men.”
“So is Steele saying that if a lily-white democratic national official hosted a party at a strip club and ran a tab of $ 2K, no one would make a big deal of it?”
“She transferred to lily-white Idaho, where she was finally able to earn a four-year degree.”
“Like we really give a rodents rectum what this lily-white backward hick thinks ... the lead of the P [H] ARTY of NO ...”
“Just a little state, sort of flat with not much to look at, lots of murders (lots of guns), and many lily-white bald old guys who need to start thinking outside the Bible.”
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'
“T-baggers: aka - irrational lily-white racists, tax-dodgers, homophobes, birthers, ignorant gun-loving reactionaries, toothless and obese fans of big insurance companies, and far-right religious wingnuts clinging to fairytales of humans and dinosaurs living together just outside Eden.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lily-white’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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Poem
Words I would like to use in my poetry
verboten, oeuvre, sangfroid, Parnassian, rainbow kisses, poreless, tight-stretched, sweat-dampened, once-living, diaphanous, languor, lily-white and 2 more...
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Feminine Beauty and Virtue
Particularly related to innocence and chastity; but a few broader things relating to goodness and virtue in general. I also added some words derived of flowers which represent certain virtues and c...
immaculate, unsullied, unblemished, undebased, lamb-like, chaste, decorous, unadulterated, unclouded, unalloyed, untainted, acacian and 8 more...
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lily
vanity
lily, lovelily, lily-livered, gild the lily, lily-white, lily-bellied, comelily, lilybelle, lilliputian, daylily, lilypad, liliʻuokalani and 22 more...
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