romanticize
verb (used with object)
romanticise
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a variation of
romanticize.
Example Sentences
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Lana Isa says her videos show her real life and were never intended to "romanticise having no friends"
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
"We tend to romanticise young adulthood as a carefree time - when it's usually the most miserable time in people's lives," says Prof Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer in education at Harvard University.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
“Trying to end witch-hunting is a challenge and we should not romanticise it in any way by trying to say: ‘Oh, it's part of our culture,’” Dr Igwe says.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
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
