1. a person who applies whitewash (white paint or coating) to walls, fences, or other surfaces
2. a person who conceals or glosses over faults, errors, or wrongdoing
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The whitewasher finished painting the barn fence by noon.
• Tom Sawyer convinced his friends to help him as whitewashers.
• The old building needed a skilled whitewasher to restore its walls.
• Critics accused him of being a whitewasher who ignored the company’s problems.
• The report’s author was seen as a whitewasher rather than an honest investigator.
• She hired a professional whitewasher to coat the garden wall.
• The politician’s supporters acted as whitewashers during the scandal.