Definition of "whitewashing" []

• Present participle of whitewash. (verb)
• The application of whitewash. (noun)
• The effacement of errors or bad actions. (noun)

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• "Liberal board members objected to what they called a whitewashing of history."
• "And I definitely don't see how I would be taking part in "whitewashing" Islamism by pointing towards it's roots in European fascism ..."
• "Back when the Sci Fi miniseries was released and Le Guin made a fuss over what she called the whitewashing of Earthsea, I read dozens of testimonials by people of color all saying roughly the same thing: that the experience of reading Earthsea and discovering that it was peopled by characters who looked like them - something that they had never experienced before within the fantasy genre - was a vitally important moment in their development as readers and genre fans."