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also glamourize
as in to idealize
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
most people glamorize fame, not thinking of the lack of privacy that accompanies it
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Recent Examples of glamorize
Media coverage often emphasizes their charm or intelligence, which can inadvertently glamorize their heinous acts.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
But the film doesn’t glamorize Callas, and instead portrays her as sad and withdrawn.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Glamorous as the exiles are, Kentridge does not glamorize them.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
But the film doesn’t glamorize Callas, and instead portrays her as sad and withdrawn.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Glamorous as the exiles are, Kentridge does not glamorize them.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glamorize
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And these heroes, slightly idealized but by no means infallible versions of the ones who exist in real hospitals, keep showing up, shift after endless shift, to keep pushing that rock up the hill.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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Social-media platforms allow people to see more readily than in the past how others—or idealized versions of others—live.—
Moisés Naím,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
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The federal government removed Union troops from southern states as southerners erected monuments to former Confederates and slaveholders to romanticize their exploits during the Civil War.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
30 Mar. 2025
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And in its day, the movie did well, but we were criticized for romanticizing the time.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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Green’s lawyer, John Burke, highlighted how abuse and instability in his childhood led him to idolize gang members and join a gang as a young teenager.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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In particular, Spencer idolized Asian American figure skaters such as Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou, as well as Maxim Naumov, whose parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, were coaches at the Skating Club of Boston and also died in the plane crash.—
Emilie Ikeda,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Glamorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glamorize. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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