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And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONNone other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYOne would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThat evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYWhy not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSI am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSThe smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENShe thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINHer white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYEven a plain girl looks well in white, and Georgie was not a plain girl by any means.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO WHITE ELEPHANT
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- base
- bogus
- catchpenny
- cheesy
- common
- commonplace
- crappy
- cruddy
- dud
- flashy
- garbage
- garish
- glitzy
- junky
- lousy
- mangy
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- no bargain
- no good
- ordinary
- paltry
- poor
- ratty
- raunchy
- rinky-dink
- rotten
- rubbishy
- scroungy
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- shoddy
- sleazy
- small-time
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- valueless
- white elephant
- worthless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.