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Meanings of whitewash in English
Sports term for game in which losing team fails to score.
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Usage of whitewash in English
1
In fact, several of the people involved in this whitewash are British.
2
The buildings gleamed with fresh coats of whitewash; everything was under control.
3
Let's analyse the four times that he crossed the Eden Park whitewash.
4
The unseen screws of political pressure creaked, and whitewash brushes slurped suavely.
5
On either hand two cinque-cento frescoes had been rescued from the whitewash.
6
Heaney does not whitewash or update the tales to suit modern sensibilities.
7
The royals should be ashamed for taking part in this week's whitewash.
8
Before Abe starts reading that new book, he can whitewash the ceiling.
9
I had to whitewash my conscience a bit to say it, Hilda-
10
A little later Tom passing saw him putting the whitewash on thick.
11
Charity's good repute became now the whitewash on a sepulcher of corruption.
12
You know your uncle's reputation-thepast one, I mean, not the whitewash.
13
We'll hire Eradicate Sampson to stand guard with a bucket of whitewash.
14
Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?
15
Barring weather interference, Australia face the very real prospect of a whitewash.
16
The attempt to whitewash the South Koreans and the government has already started.
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Translations for whitewash
Russian
Whitewash through the time
Whitewash across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Ireland
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common
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