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What is the noun for whitewash?

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whitewash
  1. A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
  2. (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
  3. (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
  4. (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The report is a blatant whitewash of the science on which it bases public policy that affects all of us.”
      “As the hearing opened, there was further evidence of a whitewash to protect more senior officers.”
      “If it was not sufficiently white, or had become discolored, it could be brightened up with a coat of whitewash.”
whitewashing
whitewishing
  1. (social sciences) The regarding of white people's norms as neutral and objective.
whitewasher
  1. One who, or that which, whitewashes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In fact, in Old Church of Amsterdam, the artist seems to work rather insistently against the efforts of the whitewasher.”
      “This whitewasher is former Associate V.P. Academic Judith Osbourne.”
whitewashings
whitewashers
  1. plural of whitewasher
whitewashes
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