blackwash
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
New Zealand usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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?"
- "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.""