0 an attempt to stop people finding out the true facts about a situation:
This is a politically correct whitewashing of the region's troubles.
1 the practice of using only white actors, models, or performers, especially the practice of using a white actor to play a character who is not white:
2 a severe defeat, especially one in which the defeated player or team does not score any points:
3 the action of painting walls or buildings using whitewash (= a white liquid):
That was a whitewashing. They had all the information and they did nothing.
There were protests over the alleged whitewashing of the country's wartime past in school textbooks.
He accused the District Attorney of whitewashing by not asking hard questions of at least one witness.
I've witnessed a certain whitewashing of jazz, a tendency to book non-African American performers to please white audiences.
A black supermodel accused some glossy magazines this week of adopting an unwritten "whitewashing" policy.
The game looked even to start with but turned into a whitewashing.
Is there a workman who could do the whitewashing for us?
Whitewashing and plastering of homes was traditionally women's work in Mexico.
