to whitewash
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6.0
- verb
- /ˈwaɪtˌwɔʃ/
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blanquear
- You're just trying to whitewash it.
So there's no whitewashing in this book of how bad it gets.
- So there's no whitewashing in this book of how bad it gets.
- The data is showing and this should upset everybody to whitewash history.
- Brett Stevens was not sitting there whitewashing or even praising Donald Trump in any sense.
- But let's not whitewash it and, and come up with this, you know, Patty cake fest a month before Christmas.
- I and my advisors were convinced that they weren't just doing this to sort of whitewash their sins and provide a human riot shield for whatever they were going to do.
- This is a woman who has whitewashed herself, right, as well, right?
- The third issue we had was people are now whitewashing good cooler designs by partners because of this AMD blog post.
Examples
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Many politicians try to whitewash their past mistakes during election campaigns.
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You want me to whitewash what happened for profit?
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And yet his reputation got completely whitewashed by a family that knows how to do it.
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I regularly refuse to carry books that whitewash their characters and otherwise promote oppression of any variety.
Blog text (12) -
To call Rachel unfair or compare her to Palin is whitewashing the facts and the context.
Blog text (24) -
Ostensibly a self-policing body to discipline doctors, the panel usually served to whitewash medical incompetence.
Fiction book (1995) -
The notion that civilian deaths are permissible if unintended, the authors argue, has allowed militaries to whitewash the destructiveness of their operations.
Academic text (2011) -
The company attempted to whitewash its involvement in the scandal, claiming it was a mere misunderstanding.
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The documentary was criticized for trying to whitewash the harsh realities of the conflict.
Synonyms
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3.7
To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it
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4.4
To do or say something to hide someone's bad action
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7.3
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
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8.0
To make something sound better to hide problems
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6.5
Make a problem or mistake seem less serious by leaving out details
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5.0
Make something unpleasant seem nicer than it is
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7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
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7.7
To hide a problem instead of dealing with it openly
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Try to hide problems instead of dealing with them
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To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
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7.2
Stop people finding out about a mistake, crime, or embarrassing event
To hide problems or make them seem less serious
To try to hide a scandal by giving wrong information to the public
To keep secret wrong actions or mistakes from other people
Change facts on purpose to make something seem better
To make a reputation or image look better by hiding problems
Phrasal Verbs
How Deceptive
- Formal
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7.3
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6.5
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To whitewash in the sense of hiding faults comes from the idea of painting over dirt with a coat of white so things look better. That's why to whitewash a scandal means to cover up problems and make them seem less bad.