waspish
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Waspish Sir Thomas and his orchestra-men race over the hurdles like steeplechasers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Solomon's grandson, who now heads the shrunken business empire, is an Episcopalian with an archetypically Waspish name, Peter Lawson-Johnston.
From Time Magazine Archive
He replaces the tall, Waspish dean of Ivy League college presidents, John Sloan Dickey, who is retiring after 25 years of transforming Dartmouth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waspish Author Peyrefitte writes like a countryman of Rabelais and Voltaire, but in the U.S., where there is no comparable tradition of anticlerical literature, he is likely to shock more than to entertain.
From Time Magazine Archive
For, from this day forth, Ile vse you for my Mirth, yea for my Laughter When you are Waspish Cassi.
From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William
Vocabulary lists containing waspish
Julius Caesar
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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