Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make less glamorous.
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- verb To make less
glamorous
Etymologies
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Examples
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He says the aim is to offer a contrast to high-profile young mothers like Jamie Lynn Spears and "deglamorize" teen pregnancy.
Salon 2010
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Kazan immediately set out to deglamorize Wood, turn her into a normal person.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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It doesn't take glamor men like Wahlberg and Leguizamo and totally deglamorize and have them sounding stilted and false like this was a high school play and the first five choices for the lead all got suspended for smoking pot in the principal's office.
The Happening The Brillig Blogger 2008
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It doesn't take glamor men like Wahlberg and Leguizamo and totally deglamorize and have them sounding stilted and false like this was a high school play and the first five choices for the lead all got suspended for smoking pot in the principal's office.
Archive 2008-06-01 The Brillig Blogger 2008
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The way to go would be to deglamorize the medical profession and demystify health care as health care activists like those from the Medico Friend Circle, a body which includes many doctors is trying to do.
Doctor on Top Shantanud 2008
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What we need to do to guns is what we did to cigarettes: deglamorize them.
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A Public Education and Counter Advertising Campaign: To succeed in reducing youth smoking, legislation must provide for a nationwide effort to deglamorize tobacco, warn young people of its addictive nature and deadly consequences, and help parents discourage their children from taking up the habit.
Tobacco Press Paper ITY National Archives 1997
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It goes out of its way to deglamorize the criminal life and portray its family of crooks as warped psychotic thugs in a losing enterprise.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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Bissell's mission is to deglamorize the global, billion-dollar sex industry, which she believes to be full of what are not victimless crimes.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Moye 2012
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Bissell's mission is to deglamorize the global, billion-dollar sex industry, which she believes to be full of what are not victimless crimes.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Moye 2012
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