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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of glamorize.

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Examples

  • The killing is an easy thing for him to talk about, particularly if he makes it sound as though he's a hit man, because that's kind of glamorized in our culture.

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005 2005

  • "T.e revived interest in fried chicken speaks to a revived interest in regional foods and a revived interest in kind of glamorized working-class food," said food writer John T. Edge.

    chron.com Chronicle 2010

  • Lynne also defended her daughter's photo spread in OK! mag as many people were saying it "glamorized" teen pregnancy.

    Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2008

  • From that review, the parent concluded that her child shouldn't be allowed to read The Hunger Games because the book glamorized television and peer/audience approval and then advised the rest of us to avoid this series like the plague.

    Ellen Siminoff: In Defense of The Hunger Games Ellen Siminoff 2011

  • From that review, the parent concluded that her child shouldn't be allowed to read The Hunger Games because the book glamorized television and peer/audience approval and then advised the rest of us to avoid this series like the plague.

    Ellen Siminoff: In Defense of The Hunger Games Ellen Siminoff 2011

  • The trial wherever it is should be quick like three days at the longest and not glamorized for the benefit of the News Media.

    Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009

  • A report by Demos, a UK-based think tank, advises that groups like al Qaeda must be “de-glamorized” and shown as “incompetent, narcissistic and irreligious.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 16, 2010 2010

  • From that review, the parent concluded that her child shouldn't be allowed to read The Hunger Games because the book glamorized television and peer/audience approval and then advised the rest of us to avoid this series like the plague.

    Ellen Siminoff: In Defense of The Hunger Games Ellen Siminoff 2011

  • It's set in a real city (Los Angeles) instead of a glamorized or revisionist version, like Gotham City.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • It's set in a real city (Los Angeles) instead of a glamorized or revisionist version, like Gotham City.

    Wish List Wednesday #26: "Sandman Slim" 2009

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