Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make superficially attractive or acceptable: "cosmeticized packages of song and dance for easy audience consumption” ( Saturday Review).
Wiktionary
- v. To make attractive, to superficially improve the appearance of
Etymologies
- cosmetic + -ize (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This culture of relentlessly dishonest and utterly ignorant pure hate which is ubiquitous all over low-brow, rightwing radio is nothing other than Vile Poison, even though right wing apologists try to cosmeticize this swill as merely "entertainment".”
Talk Radio is a Cancerous Blight on the Nation; Not "Entertainment".
“It is a word that implies finesse and expertise, if not actual art, and it is a chilling unconscious effort to normalize and cosmeticize the awful and gross reality of real-world torture.”
“JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: "Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for.”
“Some of them like Barcode Maker simply cosmeticize the Google Chart API while others like ZXing have full MECARD encoding.”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for - and that Barack”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does.”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for - and that Barack Obama's still does.”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for - and that Barack Obama's still does.”
“Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female,”
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