lionize
Example Sentences
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It's nice for people to support you, don't get me wrong, but we can't lionize people being in prison.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024
There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Glew himself, importantly, is never the target of the joke: the movie has too much affection for its subject to ridicule his eccentricities, even gently, preferring to lionize him instead.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
The library says it will humanize Roosevelt, not lionize him.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022
Two women tried to lionize him, and he ran away and played with the children.
From Lion and the Unicorn by Davis, Richard Harding
Vocabulary lists containing lionize
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