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• v  cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
• v  cover with whitewash
• v  exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
• s  coated with whitewash
  miles of whitewashed fences

• His face is on the whitewashed walls of the decrepit homes of Gaza's Bureij Refugee Camp.
• The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls.
• During the 1960s and '70s, this whitewashed island town off the Kenyan coast was known as the Katmandu of Africa, a destination for backpackers and other overland travelers seeking .

• whitewash
• gloss over
• sleek over
• hush up

News & Articles

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• Federer sets up 30-something semi-final with Haas
  BERLIN (Reuters) - World number three Roger Federer whitewashed German wildcard Mischa Zverev 6-0 6-0 in just 39 minutes on Friday to set up a Halle Open semi-final with fellow 30-something and defending champion Tommy Haas. in a rematch of last year's final. The 31-year-old Swiss, without a title so far this season, was in spectacular form on Halle's grass courts as he dished out a double bagel ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tennis-Federer sets up 30-something semi-final with Haas
  (Updates with more details, results, quotes) BERLIN (Reuters) - World number three Roger Federer whitewashed German wildcard Mischa Zverev 6-0 6-0 in just 39 minutes on Friday to set up a Halle Open semi-final with fellow 30-something and defending champion Tommy Haas. in a rematch of last year's final. The 31-year-old Swiss, without a title so far this season, was in spectacular form on Halle's ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Finally, a Flying Bike (in Case You Need to Smuggle an Alien)
  Remember that moment in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial where Elliott and pals suddenly peel off the pavement and pedal away into the gathering dusk, soaring over suburban housetops sporting expressions like roller-coaster rookies? I mean the version before they whitewashed the guns out of the cops’ hands (the ones standing beside the blue cruisers) and dropped in CGI walkie-talkies — when it still ...
  June 13, 2013 - Techland

Quotes

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• Dave Brubeck in FOXNews
  Jimmy asked my quartet to come and play in a little exhibition room at the fairgrounds that was a place where farmers showed their produce,Brubeck told The Associated Press. "It was a room with a cement floor and whitewashed ceiling and...
• Brian De Palma in Turkish Daily News (subscription)
  De Palma said: "All the images we have of our war are completely constructed - whitewashed, redacted. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to get their congressmen to vote against the war." "It's important that...
• Scott Dunbier in Pueblo Chieftain
  My guess would be they were a more whitewashed version of what we're doing. In 1964, I would doubt they'd delve into things we are,Dunbier said.Comic book geeks will find these McCain and Obama issues swing far from the old-school pow-bam-zap...