Usually means: Made to appear more Western.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. whitewashed: Merriam-Webster
  2. whitewashed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whitewashed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whitewashed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Whitewashed, whitewashed: Wordnik
  6. whitewashed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. whitewashed: Wiktionary
  8. whitewashed: Dictionary.com
  9. whitewashed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Whitewashed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Whitewashed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. whitewashed: Rhymezone
  13. Whitewashed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. whitewashed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Whitewashed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. whitewashed: FreeDictionary.org
  17. whitewashed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. whitewashed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whitewashed: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whitewashed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Whitewashed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whitewashed)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
adjective:  Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
adjective:  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).

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