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/wˈaɪtwˌɑʃ/ /hwˈaɪtwˌɑʃ/ Listen

Whitewash

noun

A defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score.

Wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces.

A specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects.

verb

(past & past part. whitewashed; pres. part. whitewashing)

Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error. Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over. "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"

Cover with whitewash.

Exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data.

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"Whitewash" Quotes from Famous Books

... that "The Celebrated Toy Emporium" was to be found in Poorthing Lane. Finding that this increased his business considerably, he hit upon a plan of advertising which has been practised rather extensively of late years in London. He sent out an army of boys with pots of whitewash and brushes, with directions to print in rough but large legible letters the words, "Who's Boone?" on all the blank walls of the metropolis, and in the papers he answered the question by having printed under the same title, "Why, the manager ...

— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne

... allowed to make a single point. Behind the resolution of the sophs to win they demonstrated a peculiarly personal antagonistic force which their opponents felt, dimly at first, keenly afterward. It was the fastest game that had been played for many a year at Hamilton and it ended in a complete whitewash for the juniors. They retired from the floor too utterly vanquished to do other than indulge in a dismal cry in concert once the door of their dressing ...

— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... saved a whitewash, and that's all," reflected Drayne. "They'd have done better with me, and I guess Wadleigh knows it by ...

— The High School Left End - Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron • H. Irving Hancock

... holding it," he said. "I suppose the whitewash has seized. And now, if you'll assist me downstairs and apply the usual restoratives, I'll forgive you the two pounds I owe you. There's a letter I want to write ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... his sister Elodie—and that was a stage name he gave her—to send her to be a workwoman at our place, without my daughter's knowing who she was; and, gracious goodness! but that girl turned the whole place topsy-turvy; she got all those poor girls into mischief—impossible to whitewash them, ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

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