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hagiography

noun

as in biography

disapproving a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants

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Recent Examples of hagiography The state-run media participated in grotesque displays of hagiography and helped produce a cult of personality around the president, whose portrait hung everywhere. —

Michele Penner Angrist, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2011 The first section is a thoroughly entertaining mixture of biography, trivia and hagiography. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024 Against all odds, that gimmick works, distinguishing the project from so many other cookie-cutter pop-star hagiographies. —

Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024 Not mentioned in labor hagiography is that arguably the largest domestic-terrorism campaign in U.S. history was waged by a union. —

The Editors, National Review, 2 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hagiography