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  • adjective superlative form of white: most white.

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Examples

  • So you're saying that when I saw the word "best," I immediately read "whitest"--that because I allegedly believe "all value judgments are assertions of power" an allegation you haven't exactly proven btw, I must mechanically have read the word "best" as participating in a racist logic of suppression and denigration.

    Good, better, best 2009

  • Colorado you're known as the whitest of the white.

    The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905

  • And of these _Minnows_, first you are to know, that the biggest size is not the best; and next, that the middle size and the whitest are the best: and then you are to know, that I cannot well teach in words, but must shew you how to put it on your hook, that it may turn the better: And you are also to know, that it is impossible it should turn too quick: And you are yet to know, that in case you want a

    The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

  • At the same conference, the city council's assistant chief executive, Paul Rubinstein, described the Tyne & Wear area as one of the "whitest" in the North.

    Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • I was heralded by each as the "whitest" woman that had ever come into the country.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

  • I was heralded by each as the "whitest" woman that had ever come into the country.

    Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

  • As the whole of the British Isles faces up to what is now the coldest and 'whitest' winter for decades, our wildlife is forced to endure huge challenges.

    BBC - Ouch 2010

  • Of several colours, all equally white, that will look whitest which is against the darkest background.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • Of several colours, all equally white, that will look whitest which is against the darkest background.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • The "whitest" place is Whistler, British Columbia where the ski resort has eight feet.

    Local News from The Lakeland Ledger 2009

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