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• n  a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
• n  wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
• n  a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
• v  cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
  Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
• v  cover with whitewash
  whitewash walls
• v  exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data

• You can't call this a whitewash.
• Says the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa, "We will whitewash the walls before she returns.
• Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, called the report a "whitewash.

• gloss over
• sleek over
• hush up

News & Articles

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• MLB: Seattle 4, Houston 0
  SEATTLE, June 12 (UPI) -- Raul Ibanez homered and Aaron Harang pitched his second shutout of the year in the Seattle Mariners' 4-0 whitewash of the visiting Houston Astros Tuesday.
  June 12, 2013 - UPI
• EU's top economic official lashes out at IMF
  HELSINKI (AP) — The man in charge of the European Union's rescues of its debt-crippled countries has slammed the International Monetary Fund's criticism of the Greek bailout, accusing the organization of trying to whitewash its role and throwing the "dirty water" on Europe instead.
  June 7, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• EU's top economic official lashes out at IMF - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  HELSINKI (AP) - The man in charge of the European Union's rescues of its debt-crippled countries has slammed the International Monetary Fund's criticism of the Greek bailout, accusing the organization of trying to whitewash its role and throwing the "dirty water" on Europe instead.
  June 7, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Andrew Strauss in Stoke & Staffordshire
  He said: "I don't think we can read much into the Ashes in such a radically different format of the game. But for the World Cup, I think a whitewash would instil us with a huge amount of confidence. We're aiming for it. We're in a great position to...
• Juan Williams in Forbes
  You have a mostly black (grand) jury, a black prosecutor. I mean, I don't know what he wants,Williams says. "It's not as if this has been a whitewash by any means."
• Sergey Lavrov in AFP
  It appears to me that NATO is trying to portray the aggressor as the victim, to whitewash a criminal regime and to save a failing regime,Lavrov said.