The Collaborative International Dictionary
blackwash \black"wash\ (bl[a^]k"w[o^]sh), v.
same as defame.
to color with blackwash.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context slang New Zealand English) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team. 2 (context slang cricket English) 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 (context medicine English) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater. 4 (context slang mining English) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light. 2 (lb en transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
WordNet
n. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation [syn: character assassination, assassination]
a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores [syn: black lotion]
a wash that colors a surface black
v. bring (information) out of concealment
color with blackwash
Usage examples of "blackwash".
Elements of Kina myth could be hammered into conformity with the tenets of the only true religion, given a quick coat of blackwash, and I would have completed a course of religious acrobatics elegant enough to spark the pride of my childhood teachers.