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
But I am not among your favorite legal commentators, and, as you've probably guessed from the title, I am not here to lionize Justice O'Connor.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 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
Then, when you have sacrificed to friendship sufficiently, you will lionize Miss Tresilyan?
From Sword and Gown A Novel by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
Vocabulary lists containing lionize
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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