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sensationalistic

ADJECTIVE

sensational

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amazing astounding breathtaking dramatic electrifying exciting hair-raising horrifying lurid outstanding remarkable scandalous shocking spectacular thrilling

WEAK

X-rated arresting colored conspicuous drop-dead emotional excessive extravagant histrionic histrionical hotdog juicy marked melodramatic noticeable piquant pointed prominent pungent revealing salient signal staggering stimulating sultry tabloid vulgar

Antonyms

STRONGEST

normal ordinary regular unexciting unremarkable usual

WEAK

run-of-the-mill unexceptional

Example Sentences

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Celebrities are offered an opportunity to promote their upcoming projects in a sensationalistic yet humanistic and, oftentimes, meme-worthy manner.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2025

The “FDA is the only institution in America that can stop this sensationalistic agenda, which is not based on facts and science.“

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

“The big publications used to only cover crypto in a sensationalistic way, when it was booming or crashing, and now they’re finally building out crypto coverage arms,” he mentioned.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

Certain local broadcast media continuously bombard us with sensationalistic, reductionist crime narratives.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

How far Science has moved away from crude sensationalistic empiricism may be estimated by a comparison of the successive editions of the Grammar of Science.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

sensationalistic

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