English Explanatory Dictionary

humanewash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

humanewash humanewashes humanewashing humanewashed

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.

Related words

sportswash
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