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deglamorize

American  
[dee-glam-uh-rahyz] / diˈglæm əˌraɪz /
especially British, deglamorise or deglamourize

verb (used with object)

deglamorized, deglamorizing
  1. to take away the glamour of; treat so as to reduce the attractiveness or status of.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of deglamorize

First recorded in 1935–40; de- + glamorize


Example Sentences

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In the same vein is a fascinating technique the filmmakers have come up with to further deglamorize the proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2019

She says they’ve also agreed to remove the bed from the treehouse and to deglamorize it compared to how it looked on TV to make it less houselike.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

Finally, that scene tells us that Wild will do whatever it takes to deglamorize Reese Witherspoon, an actress whose longtime association with perk and pluck this movie twists in interesting ways.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2014

"The adding of sunspots from working in the fields, the dirt under my nails. It was adding on to deglamorize," Longoria of her transformation from pampered to impoverished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2014

But the disappointing performance of the growth-stock companies probably did as much as anything to deglamorize them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The deglamorized Bullock is all steeliness in what is, arguably, an Oscar-baiting performance.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2021

The Empire actress is thoroughly deglamorized, seen at one point with a half-eaten rib in her hand, telling off C.P. midchew.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2019

Jennifer Aniston had strenuously deglamorized herself for her role in Cake as a woman with chronic pain syndrome in a little-seen drama that somehow pulled a Golden Globe nomination.

From Time ● Jan. 15, 2015

As the critic Robert Fiore wrote in the book “The New Comics”: “They were like no war comics ever before, rough-minded, deglamorized, and painstakingly researched. Kurtzman portrayed warfare as dirty, frightening, capricious and absurd.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014

But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taken in the aggregate, fast-food reviews even beat out dashcam crash videos in deglamorizing cars.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2018

Schumer moves through a steadily deglamorizing make-under with low-key, disarming ease.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2017

For Monster, Theron gained weight and wore deglamorizing prosthetics and was rewarded with an Oscar.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2011

Candice Bergen is strangely cast as the wife in the film, playing the role with her hair colored a deglamorizing brown.

From Time Magazine Archive

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