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sanewashing

The English word “sanewashing” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The practice of restating someone’s rhetoric to render it more palatable or acceptable.
  2. The attempt to downplay the radicality of a person or idea to render it more palatable to the general public.

Etymology

From sane + -wash + -ing.

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