whitewash

In a joint statement following the judge's ruling last month, Harry and campaigner Doreen Lawrence called it "a complete and obvious whitewash".

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

One of the nuclear veterans told BBC Newsnight on Monday that he expected the report to be a whitewash.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

No, but there was an angry written statement from Prince Harry and fellow claimant Baroness Doreen Lawrence - the mother of Stephen Lawrence - attacking the judgement as a "complete and obvious whitewash".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Patriotism doesn’t ask us to whitewash the country’s shortcomings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Through the schoolhouse window, framed by two of the older cabins—their whitewash smeared to gray, worn down like those who slept inside them—Cora huddled with her favorite at the starting line.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Tradwife content whitewashes history, but an honest look shows that contempt for housewives was a widespread theme in the past.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

Critics say the new text still whitewashes the history of Bruce’s Beach, and many questioned whether creating a new monument actually amounts to justice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Unlike the critic George Saintsbury, who looked to 18th-century literature for “repose and refreshment,” Damrosch never idealizes or whitewashes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2019

But the film "whitewashes some of the darker aspects" of the personality of circus promoter PT Barnum, played by Jackman, she explains.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2018

Many of the whitewashes and cleansing solutions used in house decoration are alkaline in character, and for such uses advantage is taken of the specially resistant character of the cellulose group of materials.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

In a whitewashed basement in a village south of Kabul, a dozen young women bustle about, stirring cauldrons of bubbling cherries and plums, and sticking labels on glass jam jars.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Work was carried out, and in 2006, the weather-stained walls were whitewashed, making it stand out off the coast.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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

The small whitewashed cottage was once again in use, with my son now assisting Kenny.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

The whitewashing of the wall has also been questioned by some who pointed out that maybe this approach was missing the point.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

When the New York Times profiled Ms. Rodríguez as a “moderate,” a backlash erupted: Thousands on X ridiculed the paper for whitewashing her bloodstained record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

What’s key to remember is that this new wave of hype surrounding East Asian media is less keen on whitewashing or objectifying than it may have been during previous eras.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025

“Roger W. Straus Jr. completes the process of whitewashing the family name,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

The men whitewashing the rocks made no sounds.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong