blackwash
Plural: blackwashes
Noun
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- a wash that colors a surface black
- A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- 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.
- A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
- Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- A villainization campaign.
Verb
- bring (information) out of concealment
- color with blackwash
- To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
- To cover with a black color.
- To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
Origin / Etymology
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
Synonyms
assassination, black lotion, character assassination, blacken, blackout
Antonyms
launder#Verb, rehabilitate, whitewash, whitewash#Verb
Scrabble Score: 23
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