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whitewashed

VERB

cover up the truth

Synonyms

STRONGEST

gloss over

STRONG

blanch camouflage conceal exonerate extenuate launder liberate paint palliate sugarcoat suppress varnish veneer vindicate white whiten

WEAK

make light of

Antonyms

STRONG

accuse blame condemn reveal sentence show strip uncover

WEAK

expose tell truth

Example Sentences

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Now AI is upending workplaces in ways both real and whitewashed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Fuelled by a tourism boom, real estate fever has broken out across the Cyclades archipelago, threatening to destroy iconic landscapes of whitewashed houses and blue church domes.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story, if you’ll pardon the pun there. And that’s wrong.”

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

The site’s biographical articles are meant to be factual, not flattering, and even widely admired historical figures do not have whitewashed pages.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2025

They had not been whitewashed and were black with soot.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende