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Bikewashing 

When businesses, organisation, councils or politicians pretend to be supportive of or encouraging cycling when in fact they are not.

Councils give the impression that they are producing improvements to cycling without actually producing improvements to cycling.

Or a politician is pictured on a bike or has a profile picture of them on a bike, and they describe themselves as a 'keen cyclist' when everyone knows they are just there for a photo opportunity and don't want to improve cycling safety.

See also 'Greenwashing' but for bikes and cycling
Everyone knows that they talk a good talk when it comes to cycling, but in reality they don't care and don't want to make any improvements. It's all just 'Bikewashing' to make them look good.
Bikewashing by Brownhorse January 12, 2022
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bribewashing 

brainwashing through money, in hopes of causing people to forget past sins.
China must have done a lot of bribewashing in order to get the Olympics after what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, along with their Human Rights abuses.
bribewashing by dmccowan April 28, 2008
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bluewashing 

The police department is bluewashing the suspicious nature of the suspect's death.
bluewashing by hikingbear April 28, 2015

bamewashing 

umbrella term for the washing of any minority group. bame stand for "black, asian and minority ethnic."
"hey bro they bamewashed triss in the show, she was supposed to be a redhead"
"well, netflix being netflix, bamewashing is their thing now"
bamewashing by goezdea February 18, 2020

church hurt 

church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
Word of the Day on May 27, 2026
Huge. Surpassing normal expectations.
I was fishing with a Spinner Bait and a HONKIN pike came after it and hit it . Felt like a lawnmower running over a brick.
honkin by R. LaJoy December 26, 2005
Word of the Day on May 26, 2026

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026