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humanewashes

humanewashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of humanewash.

Meaning of humanewash

Verb

humanewash (third-person singular simple present humanewashes, present participle humanewashing, simple past and past participle humanewashed)

  1. To engage in the animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.
    • Now, a new report from the anti-factory farming group Farm Forward seeks to outline the differences between independent and industry animal welfare labels and expose what it calls “humanewashing” among both types of groups. Like the now widely recognized practice of “greenwashing,” Farm Forward...2021 January 19, Lisa Held, “Are Some Animal Welfare Labels 'Humanewashing'?”, in Civil Eats, retrieved 13 Sep 2021

Questions about humanewashes

What is humanewashes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Humanewashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of humanewash.

Words near humanewashes in the dictionary

  1. humaner
  2. humanesque
  3. humanest
  4. humanewash
  5. humanewashed
  6. humanewashes
  7. humanewashing
  8. humanflesh
  9. humanfree
  10. humanhood
  11. humaniac

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