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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

... satisfaction to the ablest section of their own supporters, the theological Liberals. They proposed to repeal the disqualification which had been imposed on Dr. Hampden in 1836. But they had miscalculated. It was too evidently a move to take advantage of the recent Tractarian discomfiture to whitewash Dr. Hampden's Liberalism. The proposal, and the way in which it was made, roused a strong feeling among the residents; a request to withdraw it received the signatures not only of moderate Anglicans and independent ...

— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church

... coiner, how couldst thou do otherwise! Thy very malady wouldst thou whitewash if thou showed ...

— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... The third forenoon after Van Wedderburn got there he come around and took the quarter bet. And the way he crowed over me made my hands itch for a rope's end. Finally I owned up to myself that I'd made a mistake; the girl was a whitewashed tombstone and the whitewash was rubbing thin. That night I dropped a line to poor Jonesy at Providence, telling him that, if he could get a day off, maybe he'd better come down to Wellmouth, and see to his fences; somebody was feeding cows ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln

... way she had chosen, even, last abnegation of all, to make the man worthy of her who had never been worthy. Even his own indignation and wrath against that man were subservient in John's honest breast to the desire of somehow finding that it might be possible to whitewash him, nay to reform him, to make him as near as possible something which she could tolerate for life. I doubt if a woman, notwithstanding the much more ready power of sacrifice which women possess, could have so fully desired this renewal and amendment as John did. It was ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

... towns are very immoral is no accident, but the direct result of monotony and opportunity. It's bad enough that men and women have to become parts of the machine and thus lowered in dignity, worth and achievement; it is adding cruelty to this to whitewash windows, prohibit any conversation and count every movement. Before you may expect loyalty you must deserve it, and the record of the owners of industry warrants no great loyalty on the part of their employees. Annoying restrictions are ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

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