blackwash
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ækwɒʃ
Noun
[edit]blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)
- (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- (slang, cricket) 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.
- (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
- (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
Synonyms
[edit]- (New Zealand victory): blackout
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “villainization”): whitewash
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[edit]Verb
[edit]blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)
- (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
- 1904, George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island[1], page lxii:
- Mistrusting my own prejudices, I have taken the story from the two parliamentary papers in which our officials have done their utmost to whitewash the tribunals and the pigeon-shooting party, and to blackwash the villagers.
- (transitive) To cover with a black color.
- 2004, Peter Plate, Fogtown[2], page 109:
- The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.
- 1892, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Sept 1873-Sept 1874, Volume 2:
- I do not care whether a man whitewashes or blackwashes his fence, or whether he uses guano or barnyard manure, or what his mode of cultivation may be, the question is, Does he get good fruit?
- (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
- Hypernym: misportray
- Coordinate terms: blackify; (dated) negrify, negrofy, negroize
- 2019, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin, page 102:
- Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.
- 2022, Stefan Aguirre Quiroga, White Mythic Space: Racism, the First World War, and Battlefield 1:
- TheCYGamer, for example, called out the game for liberal propaganda, stating that, " […] This is straight up blackwashing history to please the SJW's."
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