whitewash

1. tv. to make something look better than it really is; to conceal something bad. Now, don’t try to whitewash this incident. Open up about it.

2. n. an act or campaign of covering up something bad. They tried to give the scandal the old whitewash, but it didn’t work.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mstislav	mstee-SLAHF (Russian)	Czech, Russian, Medieval Slavic
Hakeem	-	Arabic
Sandra	SAHN-drah (Italian, Dutch, Finnish), SAN-drə (English), ZAHN-drah (German)	Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic,
InÈS	ee-NES	French
Meuric	-	Welsh
Sigimund	-	Ancient Germanic