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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 Concert movies, especially ones like this that are essentially authorized by the artists, often skirt hagiography. —

Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024 Her subjects are just people on the day that will be their last; this is not hagiography. —

Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for hagiography