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  • verb Present participle of glamorize.

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Examples

  • Tennessee's attorney general had accused Wilson of glamouring -- glamorizing, that is, the smokeless tobacco brand Skoal.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2005 2005

  • HAMMER: Tonight, Hollywood under fire for what some are calling glamorizing cigarette smoking on the silver screen and for potentially influencing kids to pick up the habit, too.

    CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2005 2005

  • I'm no poker player, nor am I a puritan, but I don't exactly love the idea of glamorizing a modern day Gomorrah.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • I'm no poker player, nor am I a puritan, but I don't exactly love the idea of glamorizing a modern day Gomorrah.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • A new report implies movies may bend the truth, "glamorizing" or "romanticizing" events that were in reality far less cinematic.

    MOVIES MIGHT NOT TELL THE TRUTH??!!? 2008

  • You know, she ` s on the cover of a magazine with her beautiful new baby, but I got to tell you, I think it ` s kind of glamorizing teen pregnancy.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2008 2008

  • The movie industry did wrong for many years by glamorizing smoking, a big contributor to stroke risk, he said.

    Fame Doesn't Protect Movie Stars From Stroke Risk AP 2011

  • In the Murphy Brown move of 2011, Huckabee condemns successful women, real as Portman or fictional as Brown's 1992 TV character blasted by then-vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle as a bad "lifestyle choice" for glamorizing the single mom experience when, in reality most will be raising their babies in poverty, he says.

    Huckabee: No 'attack' on Natalie Portman 2011

  • Thank you so much WSJ for further glamorizing the wonders of irresponsibility.

    As Tom McCall said... sort of... (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The movie industry did wrong for many years by glamorizing smoking, a big contributor to stroke risk, he said.

    Fame Doesn't Protect Movie Stars From Stroke Risk AP 2011

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