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humanewashing

noun

Etymology

From humane + -wash + -ing, following the established pattern of greenwashing, pinkwashing, purplewashing, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewashing as "slapping a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance").

  1. derived from homō — “man”
  2. derived from hūmānus
  3. derived from humain
  4. inherited from humain
  5. suffixed as humanewashing — “humane + wash + ing”

Definitions

  1. The humaneness (animal welfare) analogue of greenwashing.

  2. present participle and gerund of humanewash

The neighborhood

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