whitewash

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

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

But Vermeer’s symbol-free whitewash is alive with light in the space between the wall and his eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Once virtually lost to memory after being painted over with whitewash, the frescoes began to be uncovered in the mid-19th century -- but the work left scratches and pockets of white on the frescoed walls.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

The committee issued a public warning, telling recent arrivals to clean their homes thoroughly, burn gunpowder to purify the air, dump lime down their privies, and whitewash every room.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Since their Test debut at Lord's in 1932, they've toured England 18 times but won only three series - 1971, 1986 and 2007 - while suffering four whitewashes.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

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

In peacetime, Mr. Drobovych led Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory, an official institution tasked with re-examining the Communist era after years of whitewashes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

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

And Ezekiel was commanded to say to these whitewashes, "It shall fall!"

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Gaebelein, Arno C.

The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the future Fuehrer was born on April 20, 1889, have been whitewashed over by the Austrian architecture firm Marte.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 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 blunt imposing tower, in the rear, is in fact a chapel, a soaring whitewashed space illuminated by its own skylight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The 2021 champions were whitewashed 3-0 in Pakistan and are missing key players through injury, notably star pacemen Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

He painted the old house white and whitewashed the sheds.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

As pointed as modern criticisms of the books’ cultural whitewashing are, the old TV show was only progressive to a point.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Instead of leaning into cliché or whitewashing, he radiated dignity, cultural pride and a new kind of Black romantic masculinity—sensual without becoming caricature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

And I agree with Coates when he criticized Klein for whitewashing Charlie Kirk’s legacy, and agree that while we should not celebrate a person’s death, we also shouldn’t paper over who they were in life.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

He has, for example, written on Bulgaria whitewashing its role in the atrocity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

But none of the men whitewashing the round rocks that lined the path stood up and walked.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong