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white_trashery
white trashery
See also: white-trashery
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Noun
- (idiomatic) The state or characteristic of being, resembling, or behaving in the manner of white trash.
- 1997 Nov. 30, Margaret Talbot, "Getting Credit for Being White," New York Times (retrieved 15 April 2014):
- Reeder revels in white trashery—and applauds herself for doing so. "I am busty, and I am loud, and I love bad taste."
- 2005 August, Anne Dingus, "Texas Myth #14," Texas Monthly (retrieved 15 April 2014):
- Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery.
- 2010, J. W. Ocker, The New England Grimpendium, ISBN 9781581578621, p. 245 (Google preview):
- Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord Alan Bono to death after a day of drinking, partying, and general white trashery.
- 1997 Nov. 30, Margaret Talbot, "Getting Credit for Being White," New York Times (retrieved 15 April 2014):