"whitewashing" meaning in All languages combined

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        "The application of whitewash."
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          "sense": "application of whitewash.",
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          "ref": "1906, Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck Rake",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2007 July 15, “The Nixonian Whitewash, Scrubbed”, in New York Times",
          "text": "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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        "(figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions."
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          "ref": "2016 October 5, Leah Williams, “How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2020, Opio Dokotum, Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth from 1908-2020, African Books Collective, page 259",
          "text": "In both films we see the consolidation of a colonial power structure of Western saviour and African victims. [...] The director responds that 'the question doesn't even come up' when his whitewashing of black history in ancient Egypt is challenged. Scott and like-minded defenders of racism take the century-long Hollywood whitewashing of African history and heritage as normal. This [...] is now challenged through audience racism fatigue, alternative narratives of Africa, […]",
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        "The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation."
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        "(derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation."
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          "text": "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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          "ref": "2020, Opio Dokotum, Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth from 1908-2020, African Books Collective, page 259",
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        "(derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation."
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