Word: sportswashing
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sport
swa
shing
Definition: The use of sporting events to improve a polity's reputation, especially to distract from human rights abuses.
Morphemes:
Affix: sport
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: sporten
Language: enm
Decoded: sporten
Meaning: v
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plurals of numerals, letters, some abbreviations and some nouns, usually because the omission of an apostrophe would make the meaning unclear or ambiguous.
Affix: white
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
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: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.