doesn't wash
Example Sentences
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Judge Watkins said that doesn’t wash, at least for the anti-immigrant label.
From Washington Times • May 1, 2023
"The ECB statement doesn't wash with me," Holding said.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2021
The idea that bad publicity is good publicity doesn't wash in an era when consumers have endless choices to select from instead.
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2021
The concept of “post-brokeness stress disorder” speaks to the tenuous reality of upward mobility, and the stubborn shame that America attaches to poverty, something which doesn’t wash off with a newly fortified bank account.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2018
The seawater falls over them in waves, but it doesn’t wash them away.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
