whitewashing 的 2 个定义
- a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame.
- Sports Informal. a defeat in which the loser fails to score.
- to whiten with whitewash.
- to cover up or gloss over the faults or errors of; absolve from blame.
- Sports Informal. to defeat by keeping the opponent from scoring: The home team whitewashed the visitors eight to nothing.
- to cast a white actor to play in a film, television show, or play:The studio executives whitewashed the role of Genghis Khan, choosing a famous white actor who was a popular box-office draw.to exclude or erase by substituting a member or members of the dominant cultural group in fictional representations of historical events:The film whitewashes Black trans women, attributing their contributions and actions to white gay men.See also erase.
whitewashing 近义词
cover up the truth
更多whitewashing例句
- González was on the brink of unconsciousness when a rescue jet ski swooped in to save him from the swirling whitewash.
- In the latest Weekly Standard can be found an editorial under the headline “The Benghazi Whitewash.”
- Plus, on cable you no longer have to whitewash the story and appease the masses, so the narratives are getting more interesting.
- “We help whitewash monasteries, rebuild structures, and teach English and math in classrooms,” Reed says.
- She must whitewash these brown men and women, rid them of their savage, slavish ways, and repaint them in her own image.
- I just wasn't cut out to be a whitewash salesman, so to speak.
- To quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'
- Historians, as a rule, are more given to the use of whitewash than a political investigating committee.
- Dean Percy removed the whitewash from some of them, and they are now all restored to their original condition as far as possible.
- A good deal of whitewash has flowed past the fence, but Tom Sawyer's trick still holds good.
- I do not wish to eulogize, still less to whitewash, so great a man, but only to render simple justice to his memory and deeds.