deglamorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
They make no attempt to either glamorize or deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on.
From Time Magazine Archive
The deglamorized Bullock is all steeliness in what is, arguably, an Oscar-baiting performance.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2021
The “iHeart Living Room Concert for America,” broadcast Sunday night on Fox TV and the iHeartRadio network, was a downsized, deglamorized pop gala.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
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
They gathered in London weeks ago, there attended lectures which deglamorized life in Canada.
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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