Words and phrases that have a meaning related to whitewash: (141 results)
Often used in the same context:
blackwash, sweep, defeat, thrashing, drubbing, ignominy, mauling, capitulation, rout, triumph, humiliation, hat trick, trouncing, fluked, victory, coverup, nilled, embarrassment, ignominious, damning, exoneration, decider, stonewall, shemozzle, shellacking, debacle, demoralizing, blushes, thumping, discredit, embarrassing, annihilation, woeful, banana skin, dismal, blot, obliteration, wipeout, unblemished, underhandedness, witch hunt, successive, besmirch, disgraceful, emphatic, smearing, bloodbath, unassailable, unconvincing, disgrace, wooden spoon, pogrom, atrocity, exculpating, hatful, steamrollered, gloss, capitulated, conceding, abject, dejecting, censure, travesty, shambolic, scalps, perfidy, boilover, dispiriting, repeat, howler, washout, nervelessly, taint, vindication, farcical, persecution, stonewaller, victors, shoddy, scapegoating, tailender, avenge, blowout, tarnish, win, walloping, shameful, revenge, skulduggery, welshmen, slipshod, slow handclap, sensational, hammering, atone, retribution, mccarthyite, sloppy, barbarities, blanking, pasting, dilatoriness, stucco, mortar, parchment, plaster, dirt, varnish, flannel, plastering, sacking, sawdust, ashes, flannels, linen, adobe, calico, canvas, carpeting, cloth, clothing, cotton
More specific:
calcimine, justification
Appears in the definition of:
blatancy, color wash, colour wash, whitewashed
More general:
acquit, assoil, clear, clearing, cover, cover up, discharge, exculpate, exonerate, wash
Synonyms:
Also try:gloss over, hush up, sleek over
— Adjectives for whitewash: fresh, new, old, ordinary, complete, thick, thin, common, more, plain, good, more...
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