whitewashed
adjective C2- Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
- Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
- 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).
- A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.
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It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
And there weren’t any at all about the asylum, only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them.
The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.
The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
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