whitewasher
/ˈwaɪtˌwɑʃər/
noun
- A person whose job is to apply whitewash to walls, fences, or other surfaces.
- The whitewasher carefully coated each brick with the white paint.
- My grandfather worked as a whitewasher for the local church.
- The whitewasher arrived early with his buckets of lime mixture.
- A person or thing that deliberately hides or covers up faults, crimes, or scandals.
- He was known as a whitewasher who always protected his friends.
- Critics called the committee a whitewasher of government failures.
- The report was a whitewasher, ignoring all the serious problems.
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