How to Use Waspy in a Sentence
Waspy
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Bucking its Greek identity, the house had become a refuge for students too weird to fit in at our tight-assed WASPy school.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
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The $5 million comedy about a Pakistani comic (Kumail Nanjiani) whose Waspy girlfriend becomes gravely ill was the first film that Basner had fully financed.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
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Set in muted earth tones in the North Chicago suburbs, Ordinary People focuses on an affluent Waspy family grappling with the death of one son and suicide attempt of the other, who blames himself for his brother’s accidental death.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
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