Blackwash

Quick meaning: Blackwash is a noun meaning (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.

Meaning

(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
2. (transitive) To cover with a black color.
3. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
4. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
5. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
6. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
7. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch

The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.

Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.

TheCYGamer, for example, called out the game for liberal propaganda, stating that, "[…] This is straight up blackwashing history to please the SJW's."

Word Forms

• blackwashes
• blackwashing
• blackwashed

Synonyms for blackwash

Depending on context, synonyms include blackout, tar, smear, besmirch, blacken.

Antonyms for blackwash

Common opposites include whitewash, launder, rehabilitate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whitewash, whiteout, blowout, overwin, sportswash, whites.

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