Cover up, as wrongdoing

Usage examples of whitewash.

And in still another panic of fright we have this same tough civilisation saving its honour by condemning an innocent man to multiform death, and hugging and whitewashing the guilty one.

Doctor Romanelli shivered slightly in spite of the heat and turned to the north, squinting at the bristling, tangled maze of whitewashed walls and brightly colored enamelled domes that was the new section of the city, which had grown up like lush riverside vegetation around the highway, called the Mustee, that connected the Citadel with the ancient Harbor of Boolak.

The windows were small, to be sure, and the pitch rather low, but the whitewashed walls were pannelled, and I had some hopes of the ceiling.

They stopped at a small whitewashed hacienda-type coffee house, and queued again, but at least the coffee was good, though they had to share their table with another couple, who hailed from Middlesex.

He buys an old rackety house at the Haarlemmer Houttuinen, fixes it up a little and whitewashes all its walls.

An hour after I received this whitewash I got a visit from a Forged agent, a Salmagundi called Bob Clovitz, who told me in no uncertain terms that the Securitat was watching me closely and would be much obliged if I said nothing, either about Metropolis itself, or about any suspicions I might be harbouring concerning Unity activities in other Sidebars, particularly Sankhara.

This time Craig did not have to be warned of the hidden turn-off, and he swung onto the track that led past the cemetery, down the avenues of spathodea trees to the whitewashed staff cottages of Khami Mission.

It was only when she went to look at them that she discovered that behind the rosebushes the whitewash had been spattered with blood.

The radiant colours were unblurred by their long sojourn under the whitewash of an earlier age and the painting really stood out remarkably.

On many of the outer walls of upper stories the whitewash has been stopped within a foot of the coping, the unwhitened portion of the walls at the top having the effect of a frieze.

The palace had a feeling of great age but was well-kept, with whitewashed walls and handsome tile floors.

His expression grave, he dismounted to confer with the three generals who accompanied him into the whitewashed wooden fort.

He blinked them away and tilted his head back to look up at the castle keep: five splendid stories of whitewashed walls and multiple gleaming tiled roofs and gables that soared against the blue sky.

Once on the other side, he followed a circuitous stone passage that ran between parallel stone walls topped with continuous lines of whitewashed guardhouses.

Still more officials lingered outside the palace, a low, vast building with whitewashed plaster walls, dark wooden doors, beams, and window lattices, and a many-gabled roof of gleaming grey tile.