WHITEWASH


Meaning of WHITEWASH in English

I. noun

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A Greenpeace spokesperson described the official report on nuclear waste disposal as a whitewash .

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At least it will be no whitewash this season.

Doors and lintels were decorated with whitewash .

If people don't like the message they can discuss it, but the report must not be seen as a whitewash .

It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.

The Internal Investigations Division, a self-policing unit set up by Wilson, had become known as a pall of whitewash .

This is not the time, with a whitewash to be avoided.

II. verb

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Angry protesters whitewashed the offensive billboards.

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A whitewashed verandah contained bags of wheat and well-oiled harnesses.

Fields covered in snow would swallow up whitewashed farmhouses were it not for their black window frames.

Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.

My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself.

Overlooking the walls were two whitewashed stone bastions.

Remember how they whitewashed the pigsties before they'd let their men sleep there?

Shop houses and ancestral halls were jumbled side by side with whitewashed cottages and churches.

The only hint of what goes on inside are the vultures that perch on its whitewashed outer walls.

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