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lily-white
[lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt, lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt]
adjective
white as a lily.
soft lily-white skin.
pure; untouched by corruption or imperfection; above reproach.
He tries to pass himself off as some sort of lily-white saint, but he's not.
designating or pertaining to any faction, organization, or group opposing the inclusion of Black people, especially in political or social life.
Synonyms: , ,
noun
a member of a lily-white organization, especially a member of a former faction of the Republican Party in the South opposed to the inclusion of African Americans in the party or in political life in general.
lily-white
adjective
of a pure white
lily-white skin
informalpure; irreproachable
informal
discriminating against Black people
a lily-white club
racially segregated
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lily-white1
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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