viherpestä
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== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
viher- (“green-”) + pestä (“to wash”), calque of English greenwash
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈʋiherˌpestæˣ/, [ˈʋiɦe̞rˌpe̞s̠tæ(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -estæ
Syllabification(key): vi‧her‧pes‧tä
Hyphenation(key): viher‧pestä
=== Verb ===
viherpestä
to greenwash (to disseminate information which aims at giving a misleading picture of environment-friendliness of a product or activity)
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
viherpesu
=== Further reading ===
“viherpestä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023