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Example sentences for: wasp
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If a middle-class Polish girl like Martha can blossom into an affected, Breck-girl faux-WASP, you can too!
Both the wasp and its spider prey are put into rum with guinea pepper ( Aframomum melegueta ) on a Friday.
The original fount of preppiness has been reduced to deploying an army of image-makers to reclaim customers from faux WASP competitors such as Ralph Lauren.
WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.
John F. Kennedy's election to the White House and the success of celebrities like Grace Kelly proved that the WASP establishment, which long impeded access to Irish-Americans, was crumbling.