waspish
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Solomon's grandson, who now heads the shrunken business empire, is an Episcopalian with an archetypically Waspish name, Peter Lawson-Johnston.
From Time Magazine Archive
He replaces the tall, Waspish dean of Ivy League college presidents, John Sloan Dickey, who is retiring after 25 years of transforming Dartmouth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waspish Author Peyrefitte writes like a countryman of Rabelais and Voltaire, but in the U.S., where there is no comparable tradition of anticlerical literature, he is likely to shock more than to entertain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waspish Sir Thomas and his orchestra-men race over the hurdles like steeplechasers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some invasion sure it was; For we heard the captains scold; Waspish cavalry a-buzz,— Troopers uniformed in gold, Sable-slashed,—to charge on us.
From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.
Vocabulary lists containing waspish
Julius Caesar
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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