lily-white 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- 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.Compare black and tan.
lily-white 近义词
exemplary
lily-white 的近义词 39 个
- admirable
- batting a thousand
- blameless
- bueno
- characteristic
- classic
- classical
- commendable
- correct
- estimable
- excellent
- faultless
- good
- guiltless
- honorable
- illustrative
- inculpable
- innocent
- irreprehensible
- irreproachable
- laudable
- meritorious
- model
- neato
- not bad
- not too shabby
- paradigmatic
- praiseworthy
- prototypical
- punctilious
- pure
- quintessential
- representative
- righteous
- sterling
- typical
- unblamable
- virtuous
- worthy
innocent
lily-white 的近义词 50 个
- above suspicion
- angelic
- angelical
- chaste
- clean
- cleanhanded
- clear
- crimeless
- exemplary
- faultless
- free of
- good
- guilt-free
- guiltless
- harmless
- honest
- immaculate
- impeccable
- impeccant
- in the clear
- inculpable
- irreproachable
- lawful
- legal
- legitimate
- licit
- not guilty
- pristine
- pure
- pure as the driven snow
- righteous
- safe
- sinless
- spotless
- stainless
- unblamable
- unblemished
- uncensurable
- uncorrupt
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unimpeachable
- uninvolved
- unoffending
- unstained
- unsullied
- untainted
- upright
- virginal
- virtuous
更多lily-white例句
- The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.
- If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
- There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
- The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
- But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.
- And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
- None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
- One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
- That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
- Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?