whitewashed
形容词 C2中文： 粉刷过的、被掩盖的、洗白的
- 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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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 Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
The carpet prevents any possibility of a trap-door, and the ceiling is of the ordinary whitewashed kind.
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