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lily white

[lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt, lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt] / ˈlɪl iˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt, ˈlɪl iˌʰwaɪt, -ˌwaɪt /


lily-white




Example Sentences

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But if Jackson seemed like an awkward fit for a mostly rural, lily-white state, he nonetheless saw possibilities there.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

It’s a beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature — until now.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

Margaret presides over a crumbling manor whose décor is dominated by portraits of lily-white colonialists from centuries past.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2020

Cole’s ascendance as a star is just one example of how romance—which accounts for 23 percent of the U.S. fiction market—has progressed past the lily-white days of yore.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2020

Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge