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lily white
adjective as in pure
Weak matches
- babe in woods
- blameless
- celibate
- cherry
- continent
- exemplary
- guileless
- immaculate
- inculpable
- innocent
- inviolate
- irreproachable
- kid
- maidenly
- modest
- pure as driven snow
- righteous
- sinless
- spotless
- stainless
- unblemished
- unblighted
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unprofaned
- unspotted
- unstained
- unsullied
- upright
- virgin
- virtuous
- wet behind ears
- wide-eyed
Example Sentences
He spins these as race-neutral, but it isn't a coincidence that the alt-right circles obsessed with raising birth rates tend to be lily-white.
There was something “rich and relevant,” Mr. Sanford said, “that you have this Black judge sentencing this guy — this lily-white guy — to life, whose family has been king for more than 100 years.”
The lily-white patriarchal hierarchy of the British upper class that Meghan has sprung Harry from.
For many Black and Latino New Haveners, that seemed to be the point; according to a local joke, the initials L.W.T. stood for “lily-white theater.”
Was I buying into the lily-white version of motherhood or disrupting the feed with my presence?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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