lionize

Example Sentences

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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

They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2023

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

The worst of Gordon was that he made it next to impossible for one to lionize him.

From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding