Synonym: gloss over, hush up, sleek over. Similar words: white wine, white as a sheet, white, whiten, white man, white lie, white lily, white paper. Meaning: n. 1. a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score 2. wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces 3. a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects. v. 1. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error 2. cover with whitewash 3. exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data.
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1. It took me a whole Sunday to whitewash the wall.
2. The government is trying to whitewash the incompetence of the Treasury officials.
3. They tried hard to whitewash themselves.
4. What he said was just to whitewash his actions.
5. The opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.
6. He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation.
7. His wife had wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died.
8. Doors and lintels were decorated with whitewash.
9. At least it will be no whitewash this season.
10. A whitewash victory for the young army hopefuls.
11. This is not the time, with a whitewash to be avoided.
12. I suggest you whitewash out the pigsties and the cowsheds.
13. Is it a whitewash or an accurate representation of the result of a searching investigation?
14. It was whitewash, the cheap stuff that is used in cowsheds and stables and hen-houses.
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15. Generous application of whitewash outside, shining fresh paint within of a drab depressing colour.
16. The signing of Tendulkar was described as a whitewash merely to cover racial bias.
17. The official report on the Kennedy assassination was whitewash.
18. What he said was a load of whitewash.
19. say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.
20. The official report into the cause of the fire was labeled a whitewash.
21. The official report on the killings has been denounced as a whitewash.
22. If people don't like the message they can discuss it, but the report must not be seen as a whitewash.
23. It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.
24. My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself.
25. Some lawyers dabble in charity cases, which, I suspect, is whitewash for their chicanery more often than not.
26. The Internal Investigations Division, a self-policing unit set up by Wilson, had become known as a pall of whitewash.
27. The dark rock of the Wick was splashed with kittiwake droppings - streaks of whitewash - from countless cup-nests.
28. It is incredible that both the Minister and the Prime Minister whitewash the inquiry by describing it as independent.
29. But the Lions had their chances and went steadily downhill from this first-Test defeat to a 4-0 whitewash.
30. A Greenpeace spokesperson described the official report on nuclear waste disposal as a whitewash.
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