romanticize
verb
ro·man·ti·cize
rō-ˈman-tə-ˌsīz 
rə-
romanticized; romanticizing
: to make romantic : treat as idealized or heroic
romanticize the past
1
: to hold romantic ideas
2
: to present details, incidents, or people in a romantic way
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Examples of romanticize in a Sentence
He has romanticized notions of army life.
a romanticized view of politics
We were romanticizing about the past.
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But romanticizing a magical solution to the problem the party faces is a mistake, too.
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E.j. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The film was widely known to be racist and was heavily criticized for romanticizing the plantation-era South in America, and for bolstering harmful stereotypes about Black people.
—Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
The actor neither softens nor romanticizes the countercultural cartoonist, a brilliant schlub whose artistry is inextricable from his Cleveland crab-apple worldview.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Shalamov condemns the Russian literary tradition (that includes Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as Maxim Gorky and Isaac Babel) of romanticizing the criminal world.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
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E.j. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The film was widely known to be racist and was heavily criticized for romanticizing the plantation-era South in America, and for bolstering harmful stereotypes about Black people.
—Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
The actor neither softens nor romanticizes the countercultural cartoonist, a brilliant schlub whose artistry is inextricable from his Cleveland crab-apple worldview.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Shalamov condemns the Russian literary tradition (that includes Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as Maxim Gorky and Isaac Babel) of romanticizing the criminal world.
—Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
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“Romanticize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticize. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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romanticize
verb
ro·man·ti·cize
rō-ˈmant-ə-ˌsīz
romanticized; romanticizing
1
: to make romantic : show in a romantic way
2
: to have romantic ideas
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