"sportswash" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sportswashes [plural]
Etymology: sports + -wash Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sports|wash}} sports + -wash Head templates: {{en-noun|es}} sportswash (plural sportswashes)
  1. An incidence of sportswashing Related terms: sportswashed [adjective], sportswashing (alt: n) Coordinate_terms: greenwash, pinkwash, purplewash, whitewash
    Sense id: en-sportswash-en-noun-GiD5Cxuu

Verb

Forms: sportswashes [present, singular, third-person], sportswashing [participle, present], sportswashed [participle, past], sportswashed [past]
Etymology: sports + -wash Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sports|wash}} sports + -wash Head templates: {{en-verb}} sportswash (third-person singular simple present sportswashes, present participle sportswashing, simple past and past participle sportswashed)
  1. To use sporting events to improve a polity's reputation, especially to distract from human rights abuses.
    Sense id: en-sportswash-en-verb-moW0GHBp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -wash Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -wash: 38 62

Inflected forms

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