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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
Succession after the prophet’s death was a far more complicated affair than the popular hagiographic accounts indicate.
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Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
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.
—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
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Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
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.
—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
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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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Lastly, rely on a featherweight veil of setting powder strategically placed to the T-zone and oily areas to control excess shine then mist on a dose of setting spray.Kiana Murden, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025
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This top pick from our moisturizer for oily skin story soothed my irritated skin and helped transform it for the better.Cecily McAndrews, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
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For her, Lebanon’s endless crises were demonstrative of the real country, too saturated with sectarian divisions to ever hope for freedom from foreign control.Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Judon was demonstrative at times in training camp, leaving one practice before returning to confront executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf on the field, missing another workout and expressing his discontent multiple times to the media.Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Aug. 2024
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While the American food supply is among the safest in the world, the Food and Drug Administration estimates that there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually – the equivalent of sickening 1 in 6 Americans each year.Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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Los Angeles County is suing the owner of Chiquita Canyon Landfill for failing to control a high-temperature chemical reaction that is cooking garbage and sickening nearby residents.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 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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The pickled mustard seeds provide little pears of flavor and an edge of acid that cuts through the unctuous dish.Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2024
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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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Members of Carter's family and his former colleagues delivered emotional and heartfelt remarks, painting a fulsome image of Carter as both a powerful politician and a thoughtful and giving individual.Tamara Keith, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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“Hagiographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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