unwhitewashedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > painted with whitewash > not
unwhitewashed1797
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [adjective] > whitening with specific substance > not whitewashed
unwhitewashed1846
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] > subject to accusation
libellate1565
impugned1599
inculpated1837
unvindicated1879
unwhitewashed1909
1797 J. C. Davie Let. July in Lett. from Paraguay (1805) 118 I would have had the whole house..left unwhitewashed.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Philips).
1867 A. J. Evans St. Elmo i. 12 A rude unwhitewashed paling.
1893 J. W. Barry Stud. in Corsica 196 An uninhabited cottage with..unwhitewashed walls.
1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xx. 188 It is to be feared that in her suppressed excitement she betrayed the unwhitewashed Hilda.
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