Sentence examples for poor white trash from inspiring English sources
noun
White person or people who worked in (a) servile position(s), for example, as (a) butler(s).
"Poor white trash and African-Americans.
And she was seen as poor white trash".
Neither condescends, still less sneers, at people often stigmatised as poor white trash.
*Abraham Lincoln was the son of a black woman and a man who was "poor white trash".
Her white characters, by contrast, are mostly written in "correct" English, even Celia, who in less genteel quarters would be called poor white trash.
"We were dirt-poor white trash in arguably the wealthiest white town in the country," Moby told The New York Times.
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"I wondered, how could someone so gorgeous play some poor-white-trash ragamuffin from West Virginia?
On first impressions this scene is a sneering misfire – yet by the closing credits its clear the director has an enormous amount of affection for his characters, and resists portraying them as simply 'poor white trash'.
When did that change?" And Kevin Randy Harrisonn, from "Queer as Folk"), a would-be writer who comes from "poor white Christmas trash," says he wants what Ted wants.
