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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glamorise.

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Examples

  • Professor Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "I would like the people who are responsible for these new forms of social media to be more responsible in the content they allow, especially content which glamorises and promotes smoking to young people."

    Tobacco companies accused of promoting cigarette brands online Jamie Doward 2010

  • It has been followed by shows like Pan Am, which celebrates and glamorises the life of air stewardesses in the 1960s, when flying was a far cry from the crowded hell that it is nowadays.

    US searches for a cultural response to economic hardship 2011

  • It glamorises and gives exclusive trade rights to criminals.

    What did Evan Harris actually say? Alix Mortimer 2010

  • It glamorises and gives exclusive trade rights to criminals.

    This is how we know we’re right Alix Mortimer 2010

  • And to address the accusations that the movie glamorises terrorism, I would point to the fact that the central characters, particularly Andreas Baader, are fairly repulsive and deeply uncool- despite some obvious desires for fame.

    Simon reviews The Baader-Meinhof Complex | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • This time she said that Brown's 'besetting sin' was 'cowardice' in not taking on the rich, and that, 'unlike Blair, Brown doesn't lust after lucre; he neither glamorises, needed, nor is in awe of wealth – but he is afraid of it.'

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • This time she said that Brown's 'besetting sin' was 'cowardice' in not taking on the rich, and that, 'unlike Blair, Brown doesn't lust after lucre; he neither glamorises, needed, nor is in awe of wealth – but he is afraid of it.'

    Defend yourself 2008

  • Calling them ''terrorists'' glamorises them, frankly.

    Some background reading... Rachel 2007

  • Mary Williams, chief executive of national road safety charity Brake, said: 'We are alarmed and disappointed that our road safety minister is taking the time to defend Top Gear which quite blatantly glamorises fast cars and in fact knocks the government's very own speed enforcement.

    Not in gear 2006

  • Mary Williams, chief executive of national road safety charity Brake, said: 'We are alarmed and disappointed that our road safety minister is taking the time to defend Top Gear which quite blatantly glamorises fast cars and in fact knocks the government's very own speed enforcement.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

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