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.
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Doors and lintels were decorated with whitewash .
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If people don't like the message they can discuss it, but the report must not be seen as a whitewash .
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It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.
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The Internal Investigations Division, a self-policing unit set up by Wilson, had become known as a pall of whitewash .
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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.
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Fields covered in snow would swallow up whitewashed farmhouses were it not for their black window frames.
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Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.
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My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself.
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Overlooking the walls were two whitewashed stone bastions.
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Remember how they whitewashed the pigsties before they'd let their men sleep there?
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Shop houses and ancestral halls were jumbled side by side with whitewashed cottages and churches.
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The only hint of what goes on inside are the vultures that perch on its whitewashed outer walls.