Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To express an opinion in or as if in an editorial.
  • intransitive verb To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.
  • intransitive verb to insert personal opinions into an article or statement that is supposed to be an objective statement of facts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To express one's opinion as if in an editorial, or as if it were an objective statement.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb insert personal opinions into an objective statement

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

editorial + -ize. Mid 19th century.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word editorialize.

Examples

  • Dexter: "There is no clause in the agreement for the $$ that the CDA should "editorialize" the position of the government."

    Afstan: CDA media round-up 2008

  • There is no clause in the agreement for the $$ that the CDA should "editorialize" the position of the government.

    Afstan: CDA media round-up 2008

  • Just yesterday I was talking with a colleague and we were bemoaning the tendency to "editorialize" ie markup cause it means we aren't selling.

    Archive 2006-04-16 Miss Snark 2006

  • In this style of writing, you are not allowed to "editorialize" (state your own opinion) in any way.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • The newspapers were all starting to editorialize about it, too.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The newspapers were all starting to editorialize about it, too.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Suppose that our Basque activist, competent in English, elected to editorialize on a blog.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The newspapers were all starting to editorialize about it, too.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Suppose that our Basque activist, competent in English, elected to editorialize on a blog.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Those of us who haven't darkened the doors of a public school lately nevertheless feel qualified to editorialize at length about perceived failures therein, based on test scores and what we think we know.

    Tony Danza teaches English in real Philadelphia high school in A&E TV show Hank Stuever 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.