blackwash

Meanings

Plural: blackwashes

Noun

• an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
• a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
• a wash that colors a surface black
• A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
• 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

• bring (information) out of concealment
• color with blackwash
• To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
• To cover with a black color.
• To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.

Synonyms

assassination, black lotion, blacken, blackout, character assassination

Antonyms

launder, rehabilitate, whitewash

Related Words

blackface