English Explanatory Dictionary

humanewashing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The humaneness (animal welfare) analogue of greenwashing.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of humanewash

Word forms

humanewashing

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").

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