damn vs whitewash

damn

adj
  • Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody. 

verb
  • To condemn to hell. 

  • To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. 

  • To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal. 

  • To curse; put a curse upon. 

  • To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. 

noun
  • The smallest amount of concern or consideration. 

  • The use of "damn" as a curse. 

  • A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. 

adv
  • Very; extremely. 

intj
  • Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit. 

whitewash

noun
  • The most basic type of thickening agent, flour blended with water to make a paste. 

  • A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white. 

  • A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep. 

  • A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements. 

verb
  • To cover over errors or bad actions. 

  • In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk. 

  • To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence. 

  • To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by discounting the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation. 

How often have the words damn and whitewash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )