whitewash
noun
had whitewashed
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past perfectof whitewash.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In its Wednesday reply, Parler said Amazon had whitewashed that timeline.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
Speaking afterwards, the ambassador declared the case a “gross provocation” which would hurt bilateral relations, adding that the inquiry had whitewashed the incompetence of Britain’s spy agencies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
In e-mailed responses, however, at least two committee members claimed that the leaders had whitewashed a process that felt secretive and rushed, leaving them uncomfortable with the university’s selection of Hermann.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2013
The Rococo Revival suite would originally have been lined in fashionably loud wallpaper, but Modernist-leaning curators had whitewashed it before it came to the museum from Saratoga Springs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012
Some had two-room houses, glass windows, new furniture, and little pieces of carpet, and had whitewashed their houses.
From The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by W. E. Burghardt DuBois
