whitewash
noun
have whitewashed
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present perfectof whitewash.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The site’s biographical articles are meant to be factual, not flattering, and even widely admired historical figures do not have whitewashed pages.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2025
This has happened before where social workers have not been vigilant or have whitewashed the case.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Detractors worry that secular mindfulness teachers have whitewashed the technique, dulling its self-critical edge.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2015
In the iron mills the puddlers have whitewashed the coal bunkers belonging to their furnaces.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various
It's no concern of mine to know how you have whitewashed this thing over and made it look clean and decent—and honourable—to your fastidious eye.
From The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
