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Definition of Sensationalize
1. Verb. To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensationalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensationalize
Literary usage of Sensationalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1893)
"... to sensationalize, or at least to symbolize in terms of the biological sciences
our psychological and philosophical knowledge. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"Sensation ' has always been the food of the playgoer, but the earlier Victorian
drama never dared to sensationalize psychology. ..."
3. Perspectives on Crime and Justice: 1996-1997 Lecture Series by James Q. Wilson, Peter Reuter, Mark H. Moore, Cathy S. Widom, Norval Morris (1998)
"The media and politicians alike select and sensationalize dramatic and grossly
unrepresentative crimes and criminals so that emotion dominates reason and ..."
4. Changing America: Studies in Contemporary Society by Edward Alsworth Ross (1912)
"Granted they sensationalize vice and crime, " play up " trivialities, exploit
the private affairs of prominent people, embroider facts, and offend good ..."
5. The Country-life Movement in the United States by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"Writers are even now beginning to sensationalize it. But there will also arise
countrymen with statesmanship in them; if not so, then we cannot make the ..."
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