whitewashed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of whitewash

2. 2

   Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.

3. 3

   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."
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   1. 4

      Having been subjected to racial whitewashing

      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).

      • […] the “scandal” over actress Kerry Washington's seemingly whitewashed skin on the cover of the February 2015 InStyle Magazine, […]
   2. 5

      A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or…

      A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

• antonymblackwashedantonym(s) of “removed, ignored, downplayed”