different between blackwashing vs blackwash

English

Etymology

blackwash +? -ing

Noun

blackwashing (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. The application of a coating of blackwash.
3. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.

Antonyms

• (vile): whitewashing

Verb

blackwashing

1. present participle of blackwash

English

Etymology

black +? -wash or black +? wash (depending on sense)

Pronunciation

Noun

blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)

1. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
2. (slang, cricket) 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.
3. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
4. (slang, mining) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
5. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign

Synonyms

• (New Zealand victory): blackout

Antonyms

• (villainization): whitewash

Derived terms

• blackwashing
• blackwashed

Verb

blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)

1. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
2. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.

Antonyms

• (villainize): whitewash

Anagrams

• black haws