Definition & Meaning | English word WHITEWASHES

Definitions of WHITEWASHES

1. plural of whitewash.
2. inflection of whitewash

Examples of Using WHITEWASHES in a Sentence

• Gower led England during the 1985 Ashes, and his team was victorious; however, two 5–0 whitewashes against the West Indies (in 1984 and 1985–86) reflected poorly on his captaincy, and Gower was replaced in 1986.
• In 2022, during the Russian war against Ukraine, the theater drew strong criticism from the Ukrainian community of Germany for showing a play by the Russian playwright Kirill Serebrennikov which glamourizes the genocide, whitewashes Russian war crimes and equates the victims with the criminals.
• Co Stompé achieved two 5–0 whitewashes before beating Jacko Barry 5–2, Michael van Gerwen 5–4 and whitewashing Nick Fullwell to qualify.
• Journalist Vadim Nikitin, writing for American socialist magazine Jacobin, has criticized the trope of the uneducated, working-class "vatnik" Putin supporter as classist and inaccurate, writing that it "whitewashes and elides the essential role played by the middle and upper-middle classes in bringing about and sustaining Putinism".

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