blackwash

== English == === Etymology === From black +‎ -wash or black +‎ wash (depending on sense). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ækwɒʃ === Noun === 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 ==== (New Zealand victory): blackout ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “villainization”): whitewash ==== Derived terms ==== blackwashing blackwashed === Verb === 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. Antonyms: whitewash, launder, rehabilitate Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch (transitive) To cover with a black color. Synonym: blacken Coordinate term: tar (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people. Hypernym: misportray Coordinate terms: blackify; (dated) negrify, negrofy, negroize ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Anagrams === black haws