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whitewash

verb as in cover up the truth

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González was on the brink of unconsciousness when a rescue jet ski swooped in to save him from the swirling whitewash.

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

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

“We help whitewash monasteries, rebuild structures, and teach English and math in classrooms,” Reed says.

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

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

To quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'

Historians, as a rule, are more given to the use of whitewash than a political investigating committee.

Dean Percy removed the whitewash from some of them, and they are now all restored to their original condition as far as possible.

A good deal of whitewash has flowed past the fence, but Tom Sawyer's trick still holds good.

I do not wish to eulogize, still less to whitewash, so great a man, but only to render simple justice to his memory and deeds.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whitewash, such as: gloss over, blanch, camouflage, conceal, cover-up, and exonerate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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