Meaning of -wash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To coat with, or a coating of, paint of the colour specified.
   morpheme
2. 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.
   morpheme
3. An overwhelming victory by a team or entity of the colour specified; often a clean sweep.
   informal, morpheme

Examples

“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.”

“Spade suggests here, in the same breath, both that the Obama administration uses its "declarations of gay rights" to pinkwash and that its support for gay rights is "used as a rationale for domestic and international regimes of racialized violence and warfare."”

“A Maroonwash will be two-thirds complete on a fast track at Suncorp.”

“So many were delighted when he was unceremoniously turfed from office in the 2015 redwash, with his USDP losing every single seat in the region.”

“To achieve a bluewash for the first time in a thousand years? Quite the incentive for Brad Fittler’s Baby Blues.”

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