pinkwash

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cover in a coat of pink paint. transitive
    — […] I see, twenty yards away, workmen pinkwashing the newly laid, badly stained, cheap-looking brick cladding of a newly built apartment house called — well, something ridiculous: Nepal, let's say.
  2. To promote consumer goods and services using support of breast cancer-related charities. transitive
    — They see such corporate involvement as exploitation, making profits on the backs of ill women. […] They claim these campaigns trivialize the disease, "pinkwashing" its real nature.
  3. To tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative. transitive
    — Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.

词形变化

pinkwashes present,singular,third-person pinkwashing participle,present pinkwashed participle,past pinkwashed past

词汇关系

相关词
purplewash

词源

From pink + -wash.
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