humanewashing

== English == === Etymology === From humane +‎ -wash +‎ -ing, following the established pattern of greenwashing, pinkwashing, purplewashing, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewashing as "slapping a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance"). === Noun === humanewashing (uncountable) (gerund counterpart to, and coeval with, the present participial verb form) The humaneness (animal welfare) analogue of greenwashing. === Verb === humanewashing present participle and gerund of humanewash