whitewash
IPA: wˈaɪtwɑʃ
noun
- A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
- (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
- (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements; (everyday life) pretense.
- (cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
verb
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- (figurative) To cover over errors or bad actions.
- (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
- (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
- (US, UK, slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.
- (derogatory) To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by discounting the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation.
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Examples of "whitewash" in Sentences
- Drab, whitewashed on the bottom right in the waves.
- It has been whitewashed to the point of illegibility.
- Is the truth so unpalatable that it needs whitewashing
- So cease stopping the whitewashing and fix the article.
- Please stop being paranoiac throwing whitewashing accusations.
- The brick fireplace is whitewashed up to the level of the mantel.
- That focus explains much of the effort wasted on compulsive whitewashing.
- Attempts to whitewash the true status of the situation equates to censorship.
- I guess the right way to describe this attitude of yours is whitewash galore.
- It is a misrepresentation of the facts, and reads like an equivocal whitewash.
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