wanness

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Noun
  • Their biting wit turned upon whiteness and the colonizer has served as much inspiration.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • People implemented racist clauses in housing deeds and rejected or offered outrageously predatory lending terms to nonwhites, permitting exceptions occasionally to Asians only by assuming their proximity to whiteness or to American militarism.
    Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • With his deathly pallor and Byronic charm, Stamp was perfect as the self-destructive, swaggering scoundrel who is haunted by visions of a spectral little girl.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Wanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wanness. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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