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  • adjective comparative form of white: more white

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Examples

  • If a soap powder is given a new additive that makes things glow, you call it "whiter than white" and link it to beaming kids in spotless England football shirts who later go on to become Michael Owen.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Jonathan 2004

  • If a soap powder is given a new additive that makes things glow, you call it "whiter than white" and link it to beaming kids in spotless England football shirts who later go on to become Michael Owen.

    How Advertising Works Part 356 Jonathan 2004

  • Vern wasn’t sure, but he thought the Texicans would kill anyone with skin whiter than theirs.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • But when the world's 13th-ranked player and South African Open top seed made a succession of hasty, unforced errors in the first two games and trailed 0-2, the expression on the face of South African Tennis Association CEO and tournament director of the R3,75-million event Ian Smith turned what might aptly be described as a whiter-shade-of-pale.

    iac world news feed 2010

  • But when the world's 13th-ranked player and South African Open top seed made a succession of hasty, unforced errors in the first two games and trailed 0-2, the expression on the face of South African Tennis Association CEO and tournament director of the R3,75-million event Ian Smith turned what might aptly be described as a whiter-shade-of-pale.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • But when the world's 13th-ranked player and South African Open top seed made a succession of hasty, unforced errors in the first two games and trailed 0-2, the expression on the face of South African Tennis Association CEO and tournament director of the R3,75-million event Ian Smith turned what might aptly be described as a whiter-shade-of-pale.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • But when the world's 13th-ranked player and South African Open top seed made a succession of hasty, unforced errors in the first two games and trailed 0-2, the expression on the face of South African Tennis Association CEO and tournament director of the R3,75-million event Ian Smith turned what might aptly be described as a whiter-shade-of-pale.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • I want to add that in my opinion, Reverend Wright the bigot who enjoy hating everything and everyone, is not the reason Obama is losing votes – Its just that too many whites will not vote for a black man, even if that black mans soul is 'whiter' than theirs.

    Clinton gaining on Obama in North Carolina 2008

  • Actually, I've noticed that Obama looks "whiter" in all of the pics here @ TPM!

    Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster" 2009

  • America isn't getting "whiter" ... and the growing minority groups look at that pathetic excuse of a convention last week for anyone who resembles them and they don't see it ...

    GOP House Candidate Calls Black Newscaster "Uppity" 2009

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