The US judicial system and press are incredible: One day you're a poor exemplary housewife, victim of a rape, the next, you're an illegal immigrant, having committed perjury and being suspected of whitewashing drug money.
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Whitewashing
Synonyms for "whitewashing" (50 found)
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Greek
1 entries- άσπρισμα noun (application of whitewash.)
Hindi
1 entries- चुनाई noun (application of whitewash.)
Polish
1 entries- wybielanie noun (application of whitewash.)
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Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas.
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The institution insulted history by peddling ludicrous whitewashings — describing the Watergate criminal conspiracy as a “coup” by Nixon’s political rivals fed by fake scoops purchased by the Woodstein investigative duo at The Washington Post.
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While whitewashing remains a modern problem, it has a long history in American film: In the very first Hollywood movie, 1910’s In Old California, white actors played non-white roles.
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