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brownwashed

brownwashed is the simple past and past participle of brownwash.

Meaning of brownwash

Verb

brownwash (third-person singular simple present brownwashes, present participle brownwashing, simple past and past participle brownwashed)

  1. (rare) To rebrand, cover up or divert attention from amoral, illicit or criminal activities by establishing partnerships or connections with legitimate, value-based organizations e.g. NGOs.
    • Company X are brownwashing when they say they are partners with child rights NGO Y, yet employ child labor in their factories in Country Z.

Questions about brownwashed

What is brownwashed the simple past and past participle of?
Brownwashed is the simple past and past participle of brownwash.

Words near brownwashed in the dictionary

  1. Brownville
  2. Brownville Junction
  3. brownware
  4. brownwares
  5. brownwash
  6. brownwashed
  7. brownwashes
  8. brownwashing
  9. Brownwood
  10. brownwort
  11. brownworts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brownwashed (page history and authors); brownwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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