- present participle of whitewash.
whitewashing
Example Sentences
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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
The Times’ Berlin correspondent Guido Enderis specialized in “puffy profiles of leading Nazis” while whitewashing the regime’s more evil aspects in the mid-1930s.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
He has, for example, written on Bulgaria whitewashing its role in the atrocity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Some convicts were whitewashing stones along the edge of a pathway that came toward the gate near where he stood.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
