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
That doesn't wash with Professor Tom Baxter, an expert in hydrogen at the University of Strathclyde.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2022
Somehow, that toy marketing argument just doesn't wash.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 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
