Word: pinkwashing
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: pin
kwa
shing
Definition: The practice of a state or company presenting itself as gay-friendly and progressive, in order to downplay their negative behavior.
Morphemes:
Affix: pink
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
Affix: white
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Affix: wash
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.