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Definition of Glamorized
1. glamorize [v] - See also: glamorize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glamorized
Literary usage of Glamorized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Understanding Violent Children: Hearing Before the Committee on Education edited by Frank D. Riggs (2000)
"The study found that most violence is glamorized and sanitized. Across the three
years of the study, nearly 40% of the violent incidents on television are ..."
2. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality and edited by Mary Frances Berry (2000)
"And someone else who is happy to get the position and feels, you know, glamorized
and powerful because they have been selected, they jump in and do the ..."
3. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"And yet, though Sigi glamorized his affair with Mummy, he knew their romance had
been tainted, for when Freud wrote about Leonardo's mother, ..."
4. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"Television styles of glamorized action and thrill-laden sensation have become
more and more prominent in Hollywood movies as teenagers have become a growing ..."
5. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Therapists may also ask people with antisocial personality disorder to discuss
feelings associated with the behavior being glamorized. ..."
6. Prevention Primer: An Encyclopedia of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... attends a well-presented educational seminar on prevention at school may go
home to a neighborhood (environment) where use is glamorized on billboards, ..."
7. Apollo's Warriors: United States Air Force Special Operations During the by Michael E. Haas (1998)
"The enormous risks in such high-stakes decisions are most assuredly glamorized
most by those who have never had to make one. In the end, Bennett bowed to ..."
8. Preventing Interpersonal Violence Among Youth: An Introduction to School by William DeJong (1994)
"One reason for this difficulty is that violence is glamorized by US entertainment
media, as revealed in television logs that the students have kept. ..."
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