melodramatize

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Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

But his greatest enmity is reserved for the television correspondents who overpublicized and melodramatized ten young men and their "monstrous international dilemma."

From Time Magazine Archive

One sort was swanking and swaggering, in which the writer unconsciously melodramatized himself, and the other was cynical, in which the writer betrayed the fact that he was afraid of being melodramatic.

From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Broun, Heywood

A few of the plays were acted, one being melodramatized, but none proved effective.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

He has melodramatized the art, introduced in it a species of false, theatrical, personal feeling, quite foreign to its nature.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James