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humanewash

verb

Etymology

From humane + wash, following the established pattern of greenwash, pinkwash, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewash as "to slap a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance"); this form also rhymes with brainwash, as does sustainwash.

  1. derived from *wed-✻
  2. inherited from *waskaną,*watskaną✻
  3. inherited from *waskan✻
  4. inherited from wascan
  5. inherited from wasshen,waschen,weschen
  6. compounded as humanewash — “humane + wash”

Definitions

  1. To engage in the humaneness (animal welfare) analogue of greenwashing.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA