"sustainwash" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /səˈsteɪnwɒʃ/ Forms: sustainwashes [present, singular, third-person], sustainwashing [participle, present], sustainwashed [participle, past], sustainwashed [past]
Rhymes: -eɪnwɒʃ Etymology: From sustain + -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 humanewash. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sustain|wash}} sustain + -wash Head templates: {{en-verb}} sustainwash (third-person singular simple present sustainwashes, present participle sustainwashing, simple past and past participle sustainwashed)
  1. To engage in the sustainability analogue of, or subset of, greenwashing.

Inflected forms

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