whitewashed

动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of whitewash form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
  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. 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?
  4. A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity. broadly,derogatory
    — She tries to portray that she is the Japanese American woman. That she is very cultured in a Japanese way but she is not! She is very whitewashed.

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more whitewashed comparative most whitewashed superlative

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English whitewash
English -ed
English whitewashed
From whitewash + -ed.
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English whitewash
English -ed
English whitewashed
From whitewash + -ed.
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