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whitewashingverbpresent participle of whitewash to dismiss as of little importancerefused to whitewash the governor's chronic disregard for the truth blinking (at), brushing (aside or off), condoning, discounting, disregarding, excusing, forgiving, glossing (over), glozing (over), ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, papering over, pardoning, passing over, remitting, shrugging off, winking (at) explaining, justifying, rationalizingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicatingwaiving, waving (aside or off) closing one's eyes to, forgiving and forgetting heeding, marking, minding, noting, objecting (to) to make (something) seem less bad by offering excusesdon't try to whitewash your rudeness by claiming that you were having a bad day deodorizing, excusing, explaining away, extenuating, glossing (over), glozing (over), palliating sugarcoating, varnishingapologizing, atoning, confessingaccounting (for), explaining, justifying, rationalizingminimizing, playing down, soft-pedalingalleviating, easing, lessening, lightening, mitigating, moderating, softening, temperingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating in 1663 |