ADJECTIVE
  1. of a pure white color
  2. restricted to whites only
    under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
    a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
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How To Use lily-white In A Sentence

  • One of the students who did not leap to attention however, was sitting in the furthest corner at a paper-strewn desk, her head was lazily propped upon one slim lily-white hand which rested just beneath her pointy chin.
  • Like we really give a rodents rectum what this lily-white backward hick thinks ... the lead of the P [H] ARTY of NO ... McConnell to vote against Sotomayor
  • Did she truly need to be told once again that beauty was to be found in skin lily-white, in hair like flax, in eyes like Isabelle's? HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Maybe Richard Cohen's only problem is that he gently cries himself to sleep at night, his uncalloused, lily-white hands self-consciously stroking his beard, waiting for an anthrax letter that never comes. Dan Sweeney: Richard Cohen: Squealing Porcine Quisling, or just Gone Native?
  • Tears streamed down her lily-white cheeks, enflamed by her heated temper.
  • So is Steele saying that if a lily-white democratic national official hosted a party at a strip club and ran a tab of $ 2K, no one would make a big deal of it? Think Progress » After Condemning Democrats For Using The ‘Race Card’ When In ‘Trouble,’ Steele Uses Race As Excuse
  • It was always guaranteed to set Lo off, despite his claim to have lily-white hands).
  • He reached over and held her small hand in his large one, stroking the top of her dainty lily-white hand with his broad, chocolate-colored thumb.
  • A sidelight cast a sepulchral glow through the lily-white curtains that hung at her new patio doors. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • 'Nay, pale youth, so lily-white,' I chortled, waving the copy paper; 'not the bounce, but a detail. Local Color
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