Whitewashed

Quick meaning: Whitewashed is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of whitewash.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of whitewash.

More Meanings

1. Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
2. Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
3. (by extension, derogatory) A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.
4. 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).

Example Sentences

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

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.

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."

"Beyond that the thinking was, 'Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, so how is the United States still racist?' That's kind of the mind-set I grew up in. Going to a public school in a very white state, I was given a very whitewashed education."

Synonyms for whitewashed

Depending on context, synonyms include painted.

Antonyms for whitewashed

Common opposites include blackwashed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include painted, choked, suffocated, stifled, muffled, asphyxiated.

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