Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective White as a lily.
- adjective Beyond reproach; blameless.
- adjective Informal Consisting of white people only or excluding nonwhite people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- White as a lily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective A
shade of the color white. - adjective Pure, unblemished, immaculate.
- adjective Innocent, having a reputation beyond
reproach . - adjective slang Restricted to
Caucasians ; pejorative in describing a white person, as arewhite-bread andpaleface .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a pure white color
- adjective restricted to whites only
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Examples
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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' 2009
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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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If anything, the Batman comics bend over backwards to dodge the image of lily-white Bruce Wayne facing down scary inner-city black men.
Unfunny = Racist 2009
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Like we really give a rodents rectum what this lily-white backward hick thinks ... the lead of the P [H] ARTY of NO ...
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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?
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'Nay, pale youth, so lily-white,' I chortled, waving the copy paper; 'not the bounce, but a detail.
Local Color 2010
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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.
Al Checchi: Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Rise and Fall of the Twinkie Al Checchi 2012
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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 2010
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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.
Craig Regester: Why Choose Detroit? Craig Regester 2011
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She transferred to lily-white Idaho, where she was finally able to earn a four-year degree.
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