Definition of "whitewashed" in English

verb

1. simple past and past participle of whitewash

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.

2. Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.

3. Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).

   • Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird. It took me years to kinda deal with, Is this a real city? Where are the other people?
   • She tries to portray that she is the Japanese American woman. That she is very cultured in a Japanese way but she is not! She is very whitewashed.