romanticise
- a variation of romanticize.
Example Sentences
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"It's so easy to romanticise toxicity, and their relationship is full of that, but you are watching them work that out themselves alongside the audience," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
A certain portion of the fanbase do romanticise the ear-piercing sound of the engines from the 1990s and early 2000s.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
Actor James Caan, who died on Thursday, was quoted saying of his long-time friend: "He's been able to romanticise his past, throw in a few bangles and sparkles and use it as an actor."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2022
I have worked as a journalist for the best part of a decade now, and there are elements of Thompson’s mythology I can no longer romanticise.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2019
She had thought it would disgust him, cure him of any little tendency to romanticise that child; and now she perceived that it was rousing in him, instead, a dangerous compassion.
From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John
