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Represent someone or something as evil or harmful. This idiom is most often used in a negative context, as in He's not so black as he's been painted. [Late 1500s]

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How to use paint black in a sentence

To make her cheeks red and paint black lines in her eyes; then paint her lips and fingers red—these things hid her.
Fantazius Mallare|Ben Hecht
No, he puts on his war paint—black suit and top hat most hideous—calls on his lawyer in a frantic passion, and goes to law!
Curly|Roger Pocock
“Ay, it is none so difficult to paint black white,” saith Aunt Joyce.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest|Emily Sarah Holt
If you cannot paint black cloth you could not have painted silken doublet.
Essays and Lectures|Oscar Wilde

She does not paint black and white, but with human tints only in light and shadow.
The Galaxy|Various