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Princeton's WordNet
whitewashedadjective
coated with whitewash
"miles of whitewashed fences"
Wiktionary
whitewashedadjective
Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
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whitewashed
Whitewashed refers to: 1. Something that is painted white, often referring to buildings, fences, or walls. 2. In a broader context, it refers to the process of deliberately attempting to conceal unpleasant or undesirable facts, mistakes, or faults about a person, institution, or event to give a more acceptable view. 3. In cultural terms, it often refers to the portrayal of non-white characters in media and literature by white actors, or the presentation of history and culture from a predominantly white or Western perspective, often overlooking or minimizing contributions from other ethnic groups.
Webster Dictionary
Whitewashed
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whitewashed in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whitewashed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of whitewashed in a Sentence
Greeting indigenous Code Talkers in front of that portrait, knowing Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears, is disrespectful -- it's worse than that. It's appallingly out of touch, this isn't the first time he's attempted to slur Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahontas, who was a real person, and he diminished an entire demographic of native women to a single figure in history who's been largely fetishized and whose traumatic story has been whitewashed by the American narrative.
If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.
The ways how SBICAP broker makes clients to loss money 1) Trading platform is clamp down during market fall 2) No command is accepted by trading platform when market swings and at closing session 3) Whole screen or transaction page of trading platform gets whitewashed especially during sudden surge or downfall 4) Accounting system is ambiguous and tricky 5) Automated reply to each complaints and not resolving. No real customer service
SBI securities have whitewashed its trading platform screen so traders could not see any transaction details
White House spokesman Josh Earnest:
His expectation is that details won't be...whitewashed...so that if it's necessary to take steps to prevent something like this from ever happening again, that those reforms are implemented promptly and effectively.
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