sanewashing
Meanings
noun
- The practice of restating someone’s rhetoric to render it more palatable or acceptable.
- The attempt to downplay the radicality of a person or idea to render it more palatable to the general public.
verb
- present participle and gerund of sanewash
Word forms
Etymology
From sane + -wash + -ing.
Related words
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