romanticize
verb (used with object)
romanticise
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a variation of
romanticize.
Example Sentences
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"The trouble is, they're trying to romanticise a dark and toxic story, so that is setting the audience up for a failure," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
She tells the BBC her main job is simply to listen: "While I don't recommend abortion, I don't romanticise motherhood either."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2023
To paint this picture is not to romanticise either young people or unemployment.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2022
But by the end of the 19th century, they began to play a central role in the lost cause, a narrative white southerners developed as a way to rationalise and romanticise defeat.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019
We must romanticise things to some extent if we are to endure them; we must at least make jokes about them; and that is where the French fail to understand us, like the Germans.
From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by André Chevrillon
