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sanewashing

noun

Etymology

From sane + -wash + -ing.

  1. learned borrowing from sānus — “healthy; sane”
  2. formed as sanewashing — “sane + -wash + -ing”

Definitions

  1. The practice of restating someone’s rhetoric to render it more palatable or acceptable.

  2. The attempt to downplay the radicality of a person or idea to render it more palatable to…

    The attempt to downplay the radicality of a person or idea to render it more palatable to the general public.

  3. present participle and gerund of sanewash

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sanewashing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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