blackwash
blackwash noun: a whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
Noun
blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)
- A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- Synonyms:
- blackout
- 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
blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)
- To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
- 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.1904, George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island, page lxii
- Antonyms:
- whitewash, launder, rehabilitate
- To cover with a black color.
- The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.2004, Peter Plate, Fogtown, page 109
- 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?1892, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Sept 1873-Sept 1874, Volume 2
- Synonyms:
- blacken
- To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
- Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.2019, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin, page 102
- TheCYGamer, for example, called out the game for liberal propaganda, stating that, "[…] This is straight up blackwashing history to please the SJW's."2022, Stefan Aguirre Quiroga, White Mythic Space: Racism, the First World War, and Battlefield 1
blackwash meaning in Tamil
blackwash in Tamil
- கருஞ்சாயமடித்தல், கரும்பூச்சி
Synonyms of blackwash
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Forms of blackwash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blackwashes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blackwashes |
| present participle | blackwashing |
| past participle | blackwashed |
| past | blackwashed |
Origin of blackwash
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
Words formed from blackwash
Words that rhyme with blackwash
Questions about blackwash
- What does blackwash mean?
- Blackwash means a whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- What is blackwash in Tamil?
- Blackwash in Tamil is கருஞ்சாயமடித்தல், கரும்பூச்சி. See Blackwash meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is blackwash?
- Blackwash can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of blackwash?
- The plural of blackwash is blackwashes.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blackwash (page history and authors); blackwash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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