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Whitewashed

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
  2. 2
    Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.

    "Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser and still-influential MAGA voice, posed the question others were already repeating: "How does an anti–deep state administration put out something this whitewashed? This is not what people voted for.""

  3. 3
    Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).

    "Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird. It took me years to kinda deal with, Is this a real city? Where are the other people?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    coated with whitewash wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of whitewash form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From whitewash + -ed.

Etymology 2

From whitewash + -ed.

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