whitewash
to gloss over or conceal wrongdoing to make it seem acceptable
Whitewash in a sentence
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Critics accused the committee of whitewashing the failures in its final report.
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
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