blackwash

noun 5verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.

2

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.

3

A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.

4

Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

5

A villainization campaign.

verb

1

To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch

Mistrusting my own prejudices, I have taken the story from the two parliamentary papers in which our officials have done their utmost to whitewash the tribunals and the pigeon-shooting party, and to blackwash the villagers.

2

To cover with a black color.

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

I do not care whether a man whitewashes or blackwashes his fence, or whether he uses guano or barnyard manure, or what his mode of cultivation may be, the question is, Does he get good fruit?

3

To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.

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."

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