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white
adjective
decent US, 1913
Usually used sarcastically and as a conscious rejection of the racism that once would have inspired the saying.- “You can bring her out to the house if you really want to.” “That’s white of you,” I said. “What makes you think she’d come?” “Look, Jim, I didn’t mean it that way.” — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 198, 1951
- We’ve only met twice and you’ve been more than white to me both times. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 9, 1953
- “Well, that’s darn white of you,” said my old man. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 9, 1961
- “Like you inviting me out for the weekend. Damned white of you.” — Burt Hirschfield, Fire Island, p. 74, 1970
- It was might white of you, boy. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 134, 1980
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