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PRONUNCIATION OF LILY-WHITE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LILY-WHITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lily-White is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LILY-WHITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lily-white in the English dictionary

The first definition of lily-white in the dictionary is of a pure white. Other definition of lily-white is pure; irreproachable. Lily-White is also discriminating against Black people.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LILY-WHITE

lilliput
Lilliputian
lilly-pilly
Lilo
Lilongwe
lilt
lilting
liltingly
liltingness
lily
lily iron
lily of the valley
lily pad
lily-like
lily-livered
lily-trotter
Lima
lima bean
limacel
limaceous

WORDS THAT END LIKE LILY-WHITE

black and white
black-and-white
Chinese white
egg white
flat white
graphite
Hepplewhite
house white
in black and white
in the white
large white
milk-white
milky-white
off-white
oyster white
oyster-white
small white
snow-white
the white
white
zinc white

Synonyms and antonyms of lily-white in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LILY-WHITE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lily-white» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lily-white

Translation of «lily-white» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LILY-WHITE

Find out the translation of lily-white to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lily-white from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lily-white» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

纯白
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- lirio blanco
570 millions of speakers

English

lily-white
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लिली सफेद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزنبق الأبيض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лилия - белый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lírio - branco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্ণশূভ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

d´une blancheur de lis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lily-white
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

blütenweiß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ユリホワイト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흰색 청렴한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lily-putih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trắng tinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லில்லி வெள்ளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमळ-पांढरे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bembeyaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lily -white
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lilia biała
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лілія - білий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crin - alb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρίνο - άσπρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lelie - wit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lily -white
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lilje - hvit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lily-white

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LILY-WHITE»

The term «lily-white» is regularly used and occupies the 94.402 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LILY-WHITE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lily-white

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LILY-WHITE»

Discover the use of lily-white in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lily-white and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lily White
As the astonishing twists and reverses of the Torkelson case are revealed, so too is the riveting story behind Lee;s life.
Susan Isaacs, 2010
2
Lily White: Racism and Bigotry in Small-Town Iowa
Racism and Bigotry in Small-Town Iowa Kennith Kuhr, Cindy Kuhr. LiLy White Racism and Bigotry in small-town iowa Kennith & Cindy Kuhr Tate Publishing & Enterprises Lily White : Racism and Bigotry in Small-town Iowa Copyright.
Kennith Kuhr, Cindy Kuhr, 2009
3
Lily White Rose Red
Meet Grey Randall, a hard-boiled detective whose sense of humor makes it hard for him to stay strictly noir.
Catt Ford, 2010
4
Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the ...
It should be observed that the lily-white movement is not completely anti-Negro: lily-white leaders want Negro votes but do not want to recognize Negro influence or claims. In some states, as in Louisiana, Negro Republican registrants are ...
Gunnar Myrdal, 1995
5
Booker T. Washington : Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, ...
Washington let the White House know that Charles Scott had "aligned himself pretty strongly with the 'lily white' element."16 Each faction then held district conventions along the same lines. Many blacks in Alabama, outraged over Brownsville, ...
College Park Louis R. Harlan Professor of History University of Maryland, 1983
6
Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites: A Study of Southern Strategies
In the 18805 lily-white efforts to “reform” the party by displacing the dominant black-and-tan leadership became more and more common.m Most lily-white factions retained some Negro representatives who believed that they would have a ...
Donald J. Lisio, 1985
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German and English
[in poetry] lily-white face. — arm, m. lin poetiy] an arm as white as a lily, lily-white arm. — arm 13, <'"'/• [in poetry] having lily- white arms. — a tt ig, adj. lily-like, liliaceous. — bourn/ m. lily-bearing tulif-tree, lirio- dendron lilifera. "— btufl,/., — bufen ...
Joseph Leonhard Hilpert, Ernst Friedrich Kärcher, 1846
8
Bailue And The Bonnets: Highest of Heights And Lowest of Lows
Lily white nipples and lily white best; a lily white girl in a polka dot dress; with lily white hands and lily white seat; lily white cool and a lily white heat; Lilly White comes and Lilly White grows; Lilly White wills and Lilly White owes; with lily white  ...
Walter Moore S., 2013
9
The Crisis
Lily-White Social Planning The Negro has no pleasanter outlook in the long term social planning ventures of the new administration. Planning for subsistence homesteads for industrially stranded workers has been muddled enough even ...
10
The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage ...
The lily-white faction rewarded Aldrich by running him for the state house from Shelby County, while his brother, Truman, supplied editorial support and curried former-Populist support from the pages of his Birmingham Times. The Huntsville  ...
Glenn Feldman, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LILY-WHITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lily-white is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why White Votes Matter More In The Democratic Primary Process …
Indeed, Obama's strong performance in lily-white Iowa was viewed as a sign that the African American senator could appeal to white voters. «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
2
'White People': MTV Takes On White Privilege - The Daily Beast
White People covers a lily-white spectrum: white teachers at a predominately Native American school; a white, gay man attending a historically ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
3
I Am Not My Hair - Elle
The daughter of a Nigerian pediatrician and a Ghanaian surgeon, I grew up in Chestnut Hill, a lily-white suburb of Boston. And of all the ways I ... «ELLE.com, Jul 15»
4
McCain: Trump owes apology to veterans, not to him - Yahoo News …
That said, John McCain has not exactly been lily-white in this thing. He was the first one to say those who would vote for Trump are "crazies". «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
5
Spike TV's "Tut" benefits from strong cast and a compelling story
It's also nice to see a production with a cast that's not all lily-white. The whole thing hinges on Jogia's performance as Tut. And while the young ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
6
Seeking solace in Waterford
He tells us captivating stories about ladies with lily-white porcelain skin who would sit in the drawing room while their husbands took to playing ... «TNT Magazine, Jul 15»
7
George Diaz: Caitlyn Jenner's journey not deserving of ESPYs Award
Ashe himself, whose courage was defined in addressing apartheid in South Africa and blazed a trail for the Williams sisters in the lily-white ... «Lebanon Democrat, Jul 15»
8
The Atticus We Always Knew
We lived in a lily-white suburb so that I could attend the best-endowed public schools in Alabama. My parents, like most white people in ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
9
Institute board still 'lily-white' after supervisors ignore black nominee
While people around the country are squalling about racial insensitivity and blaming monuments and flags, the Pittsylvania Board of ... «Chatham Star Tribune, Jul 15»
10
Column: Spieth no Tiger, though that's not a bad thing - ABC FOX …
Forget the fact that part of the Woods mystique was that he was a rare player of color in a mostly lily-white game. Woods caused more of a stir by doing other ... «ABC FOX Montana News, Jul 15»

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