Definition of "lily-white" []

• White as a lily. (adjective)
• Beyond reproach; blameless. (adjective)
• Informal Excluding or seeking to exclude Black people. (adjective)

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• "The same reason that people “flee” lily-white Massachusetts and Connecticut, and move to North Carolina and Florida."
• "If ever there was a case of blatant discrimination, it has been in the disproportionate allocation of Hostess marketing dollars to the lily-white Twinkie and the benign neglect of the chocolate Ho Ho."
• "Also, I could speak Spanish pretty decently and was looking for a place very different from Jenison, Michigan -- the lily-white suburb where I had grown up."