-wash
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
To focus on, or an act of focussing on, a supposedly positive aspect of an organisation in order to distract from or downplay negative perceptions.
suffix
An overwhelming victory by a team or entity of the colour specified; often a clean sweep.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "At present, successive coats of yellowwash fill up the rich decoration of this doorway, so that its beauty is not brought out to the eye of the unpractised visitor."
- "The natives dig clay from both places, in order to paint or rather redwash the walls of their huts."
- "The only touch of color was provided by a small copy Leonardo's Last Supper and three crudely painted windows, executed in a kind of bluewash and orangewash, over the altar."
- "They are likely to remain small and relatively marginalized niche markets, even as some of their rhetoric is appropriated by the TNCs for use as marketing gimmicks and bluewash."
- "In embracing and promoting their collaborations with WWF, these companies are being encouraged to greenwash their brands with the WWF logo."
- "One might argue that more is at stake than hiring multiracial, female, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) employees to rainbowwash corporate agendas."