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also hagiographical
as in adulatory
overly or insincerely flattering
a hagiographic portrait of one of the pioneers of the automotive age
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Recent Examples of hagiographic
Advertisement Rather than painting a hagiographic portrait of these designers, the series takes an unflinching look at their activities during the Nazi occupation of France, when everyone — even those now celebrated as paragons of taste and style — made painful choices in order to survive.
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Tim Ballard, the anti-trafficking activist whose purported rescues of abducted children inspired the film, basked in its hagiographic glow.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
Even in 1992, post-colonial sentiment was such that Scott’s treatment seemed weirdly hagiographic.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
Russian missile strike kills at least 10 in Lviv, far from front line
This week’s hagiographic effort was a mawkish video released by the Kremlin on Tuesday of Putin meeting an 8-year-old Derbent girl summoned to his office.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Tim Ballard, the anti-trafficking activist whose purported rescues of abducted children inspired the film, basked in its hagiographic glow.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
Even in 1992, post-colonial sentiment was such that Scott’s treatment seemed weirdly hagiographic.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
Russian missile strike kills at least 10 in Lviv, far from front line
This week’s hagiographic effort was a mawkish video released by the Kremlin on Tuesday of Putin meeting an 8-year-old Derbent girl summoned to his office.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographic
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The chatter has only grown in recent days, after Ms. Anderson — who just celebrated a birthday — posted a story on her Instagram account, showing a lavish bouquet of flowers and a gushy card from an admirer.Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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There’s no better time to embrace the mushy gushy than in the first few moments after winning gold medals together.Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
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Jojoba oil is an oily wax made from the seed of the jojoba plant, a desert shrub.Susan Bard, Verywell Health, 12 Dec. 2024
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When rain falls through them, the metals react, leaving polluted puddles with an oily sheen to seep into nearby creeks.John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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But this requires church-goers to be a demonstrative example of what the church is all about.Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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As ecstatic as the campers were to see the magic behind what makes Fox so consistent in games, no one in the gym was more demonstrative with their support than Recee, who has been married to Fox since fall of 2022 after Fox proposed to his then-girlfriend two years prior.Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
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Reviews of the film at the time tended to single out the career-best performance of Jason Patric, primarily because, as the aggro, rape-minded workout buddy to Eckhart’s weak-spined Barry, Patric’s is the showiest and most sickening role.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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The yearling scrambled back up its tree, then let go and fell, landing with a sickening thud.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
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At any moment, the noodles might dissolve, the cheese topping burn, the dish collapse into a soggy, oleaginous mess.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
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The group that seems to have inspired Reid is Fleetwood Mac, which, with its shifting intramural love relationships, sundry drug problems and issues of control — the soapiest of rock’s many operas — was a romance novel/miniseries waiting to happen.Robert LloydTelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
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Pasta sauces are unctuous, and the tiramisu made my lactose-intolerant dining companion giddy.Kendyl Kearly, Baltimore Sun, 25 Nov. 2024
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For cooking the aromatic vegetables, but also dotted overtop, butter seeps into the breadcrumbs and crisps up the top for an unctuous, golden bite.Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
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This combination of quality reporting and fulsome data analysis can guide an investor away from all the noisy, contrived optimism to quiet, accurate realism.John S. Tobey, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Guitars are particularly fulsome, with Mark Knopfler’s plucking on You and Your Friend sounding rounded and lifelike.Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Hagiographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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