Definitions for whitewash

whitewash white·wash

Spelling: [hwahyt-wosh, -wawsh, wahyt-]
IPA: /ˈʰwaɪtˌwɒʃ, -ˌwɔʃ, ˈwaɪt-/

Whitewash is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 250 anagrams from letters in whitewash (aehhistww).

Definitions for whitewash

noun

  1. a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
  2. anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame.
  3. Sports Informal. a defeat in which the loser fails to score.

verb (used with object)

  1. to whiten with whitewash.
  2. to cover up or gloss over the faults or errors of; absolve from blame.
  3. Sports Informal. to defeat by keeping the opponent from scoring:

Origin of whitewash

First recorded in 1585-95; white + wash

Examples for whitewash

Plus, on cable you no longer have to whitewash the story and appease the masses, so the narratives are getting more interesting.

They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash.

I just wasn't cut out to be a whitewash salesman, so to speak.

At all events, its colour remained unimpaired by paint or whitewash.

In the latest Weekly Standard can be found an editorial under the headline “The Benghazi whitewash.”

Mrs. Rabbit wanted to know what he meant by carrying off some of her whitewash.

She must whitewash these brown men and women, rid them of their savage, slavish ways, and repaint them in her own image.

You know your uncle's reputation—the past one, I mean, not the whitewash.

And Mr. Crow said: "The trouble about whitewash is that it's too hard to keep it on."

How could she have allowed herself to whitewash such monstrosity?

Word Value for whitewash
Scrable

21

Words with friends

19

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