| 1 | He wants to gloss over his mistakes. | |
| 2 | What he said was a load of whitewash. | |
| 3 | He tried to varnish over the facts, but it was useless. | |
| 4 | The report whitewashed the recent events. | |
| 5 | Houses in Germany have been whitewashed, and there has been other whitewashing as well. |