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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of glamorise.

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Examples

  • He said crime was sometimes "glamorised" in the country's townships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Drug-taking, smoking, drinking, violence - all should be minimised and definitely not "glamorised".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Drug-taking, smoking, drinking, violence - all should be minimised and definitely not "glamorised".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • After the seminal Clash record came a band whose very name glamorised unemployment, UB40 (Unemployment Benefit Form

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Tim Lott 2010

  • 'glamorised' so much about and seems like Zoology is a Fossil and Botany is about vegetables and gardening, may be Chemistry is about that Uranium bomb - 'oh!

    Muti 2008

  • 'glamorised' so much about and seems like Zoology is a Fossil and Botany is about vegetables and gardening, may be Chemistry is about that Uranium bomb - 'oh!

    Muti 2008

  • The result is that food gets over-glamorised, meaning that many would like to let rip into a chocolate gateau. "

    unknown title 2009

  • In the Unnatural Mystery Museum, hidden by the bones of the dinosaur, I witnessed the floating of Susie's feet as he waltzed her around the mosaic floors to meet the approaching night, where they shimmered in the dust of a glamorised light, far away from me.

    NICK POP'S BRAIN Penny Goring 2012

  • However, the glamorised portraits of the prince regent frequently attracted mockery.

    Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

  • The majority of the complaints to the ASA were that the ad campaign was offensive because it was sexually suggestive, indecent, provocative, glamorised casual sex, and objectified and demeaned women.

    Banned Ads Starring Lucy Pinder Are 'Degrading To Women,' Says ASA (PHOTOS) 2011

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