paint black
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Represent someone or something as evil or harmful. This idiom is most often used in a negative context, as in He's not so black as he's been painted. [Late 1500s]
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Words nearby paint black
pains, painstaking, paint, paintball, paintball game, paint black, paintbox, paint bridge, paintbrush, paint-by-numbers, painted
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