They are often characterized as benevolent and admirable; when we do the same, we are angry and unreasonable.
The founder of Valor por Tamaulipas disputes this version of events and has characterized it as disinformation.
This dramatic increase may simply be a matter of reporting—more crimes are being reported and characterized as anti-LGBT.
It's a terrifying disease, characterized by spasms and sometimes followed by fatal bleeding from the nose and mouth.
Frazier characterized the weakened bill as a first step in a yearslong battle.
It was characterized as "a policy of which peace, progress and retrenchment were the watchwords."
Linda entered with exactly the same self-possession that characterized her at home.
From the very beginning, the American people have been characterized by idealism.
The genus is characterized by awl-shaped spines which are distant at the base.
Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
1590s, "to engrave, write," back-formation from characterization, or else from Medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharakterizein "to designate by a characteristic mark," from kharakter (see character). Meaning "to describe the qualities of" is recorded from 1630s; that of "to be characteristic" is from 1744. Related: Characterized; characterizing.
