Meanings
adjectivestraightwashed (not comparable)
- not comparableWith references to nonstraight sexual orientations omitted or removed.
Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire [title]
2018 December 19, Peter Bradshaw, “Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
[…] the result of the decline of the studio-era Production Code (which forbade depictions of homosexuality, leading to 'straightwashed' biopics of figures like Cole Porter in Night and Day […]
2017, Jonathan Lupo, “Blending in and standing out: Storytelling and genre in the LGBT biopics Milk and Pedro”, in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 230
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of straightwash
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