Thesaurus / whitewash
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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.
TRAINING FOR BIG-WAVE SURFING? IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.KADE KRICHKONOVEMBER 22, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINETo quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHistorians, as a rule, are more given to the use of whitewash than a political investigating committee.
THE AFFABLE STRANGERPETER MCARTHURDean Percy removed the whitewash from some of them, and they are now all restored to their original condition as far as possible.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYA good deal of whitewash has flowed past the fence, but Tom Sawyer's trick still holds good.
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHTHEYWOOD BROUNI do not wish to eulogize, still less to whitewash, so great a man, but only to render simple justice to his memory and deeds.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME XIIJOHN LORDHe describes them as building a wall and then putting some untempered stuff, a whitewash, upon the wall.
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEINAnd the whitewash, the enticing, beautiful words which are used to cover it over and make it appear as being secure!
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEINIn the other are Giotto's frescoes revealed from under the whitewash by which they were long covered, like those in the Bargello.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTYale secured one score in the fourth inning, while Harvard retired with her third whitewash.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S RACESBURT L. STANDISHWORDS RELATED TO WHITEWASH
- betrayal
- bunco
- corruption
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- disaffection
- dodge
- double cross
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- fake
- falseness
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- grift
- gyp
- infidelity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- put on
- racket
- recreancy
- scam
- sellout
- shell game
- skin game
- spoof
- stab in the back
- sweet-talk
- treacherousness
- treason
- two-timing
- whitewash
- artifice
- baloney
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- cozening
- deceit
- deception
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- fix
- flimflam
- fraud
- gyp
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- put on
- racket
- ripoff
- run around
- scam
- shady deal
- sham
- shell game
- snow job
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
- absolve
- acquit
- advocate
- argue
- assert
- bear out
- claim
- clear
- confute
- contend
- corroborate
- defend
- disculpate
- disprove
- do justice to
- establish
- exculpate
- excuse
- exonerate
- extenuate
- free
- free from blame
- guard
- justify
- maintain
- plead for
- protect
- prove
- rationalize
- refute
- rehabilitate
- second
- shield
- substantiate
- support
- uphold
- warrant
- whitewash
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