glorified
Example Sentences
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What it meant was that the 1-0 win - Harry Kane the goalscorer again - came from effectively a glorified training session carried out under the guise of international football.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
All told, the Angels are a glorified minor league team with no apparent vision and no obvious hope for the future and not worth the money at any price.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
TVs desperately need to command customers’ attention at home, and not just as glorified speakers for podcasts that play in the background.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
It was a lukewarm glorified sausage McMuffin but did the trick on an 8 a.m. flight.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The nucleic acid in a chromosome, as one biochemist put it, was merely the “structure-determining, supporting substance”—a glorified molecular scaffold for genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
