Definitions

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  • verb British Alternative form of glamorize.

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  • verb interpret romantically
  • verb make glamorous and attractive

Etymologies

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glamour +‎ -ise

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Examples

  • It is one thing for TV executives to try to "glamourise" business for the sake of ratings, but the prime minister, even a sinking one, should know better.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • "The problem isn't the existence of these types of dramas that glamourise (or even accurately depict) the lives of a minority (less than 1%) within the African community involved in criminality," said Toyin.

    Readers' reviews 2011

  • The film is fantastic, and does not in any way glamourise terrorism.

    The Baader Meinhof Complex Movie Trailer | /Film 2008

  • Others have chosen to highlight the shortcomings of the Man From U.N.C.L.E style 70s throwback spy plotlines, that glamourise the profession as a champagne-quaffing, womanising lark- but personally I love it.

    Simon Says MY OWN WORST ENEMY may be Christian Slater’s route back to the top… | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • If ever you want to glamourise and vaunt a side dish of vegetables, or if you are looking for vegetables presented as a main course, look no further.

    Cookery Book Review: Claudia Roden's Shaun 2009

  • But note, we are all sexual beigns and will get a thingle, Proper education and family support is what is needed, not to glamourise teen age pregnancy, and getting married at seventeen does not make it ok.

    Strange Bedfellows 2008

  • Feel free to do without the adornments of thyme, but a student must glamourise his or her life from time to time, however simply.

    Caramelised Onion Tart Shaun 2007

  • Feel free to do without the adornments of thyme, but a student must glamourise his or her life from time to time, however simply.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Shaun 2007

  • I don't know how I feel about books that glamourise prostitution.

    Prostitution: What a giggle Ms Robinson 2007

  • If you are going 'glamourise the issue and sell it in lyrical form then at least for gods sake get all the issues right.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

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