phrase
General Slang
throw shade
· phrase · ballroom
Artful, indirect contempt — an insult you don't even have to say out loud.
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Shade is the elegant evolution of reading. You don't tell someone they're ugly — you don't have to, because they already know, and that silence is the insult. Subtle, deniable, devastating. The definitive take comes from Dorian Corey in Paris Is Burning: 'I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly. And that's shade.' Now everyone from gossip blogs to politicians 'throws shade,' usually with none of the finesse.
“She didn't say a word, just looked at my outfit and looked away. Pure shade.”
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throw shade In A Sentence
She didn't say a word, just looked at my outfit and looked away. Pure shade.
Origin & Usage
Black and Latino ballroom culture; defined on camera by Dorian Corey in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, where it's described as an evolution of reading.
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