Crossword-Solution: WHITEWASH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whitewash | n. | Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. |
| Whitewash | n. | A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime. |
| Whitewash | v. t. | To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash. |
| Whitewash | v. t. | To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “WHITEWASH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Concealment of damaging fact. | 1 answer |
| substance for whitening walls | 1 answer |
| exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | 1 answer |
| Twain paint | 1 answer |
| Tom Sawyer's fence task | 1 answer |
| Tom Sawyer's bucketful | 1 answer |
| Substance applied to a wall | 1 answer |
| Political laundry. | 1 answer |
| Pale paint | 1 answer |
| Milk bath? | 1 answer |
| Lime-based paint | 1 answer |
| Exonerate by superficial investigation. | 1 answer |
| Cover up, as wrongdoing | 1 answer |
| parget | 3 answers |
| LIGHT coat | 3 answers |
| Whiting. | 4 answers |
| CLEAN sweep | 11 answers |
| gloss over | 18 answers |
| Cover up | 23 answers |
| "@#$!" cover-up | 26 answers |
| Exonerate | 28 answers |
| Dyestuff | 31 answers |
| facing | 34 answers |
| exculpate | 37 answers |
| outer coat | 47 answers |
| whiten | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WHITEWASH (5)
Tom said: “Say, Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you’ll whitewash some.” Jim shook his head and said: “Can’t, Mars Tom.
Tyrone asked the Personnel Director if they would reconsider his application, and that if necessary, he would whitewash his skin.
Under this apprehension, as I suppose, he showed signs of wishing to be rid of me, and with whitewash brush in hand, in search of work, he soon disappeared.
Under the inspiration of this thought, I must suppose it was, he gave signs of a wish to get rid of me, and soon left me his whitewash brush in hand—as he said, for his work.
Weitbrecht-Rotholz was an enthusiastic admirer of Charles Strickland, and there was no danger that he would whitewash him.
Quotes with WHITEWASH (3)
I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.
Today's Republican Party... is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition, all but declaring war on the government. The Democratic Party, while no paragon of civic virtue, is more ideologically centered and diverse, protective of the gover…
The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).