DEGLAMORIZED Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

deglamorized

verb

past tense of deglamorize

as in minimized

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The study assumed the investor was a buy-and-hold investor, which minimized sales and thereby reduced taxes on capital gains.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
At a time when antisemitism is too often minimized, rationalized or repackaged in more socially acceptable language, this kind of moral clarity matters.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2026

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Journalism advocacy groups decried the firings and criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to manipulate independent news coverage of the military.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The move would scrap 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule; the idea has been widely decried by environmental groups as risking the demise of some of the nation’s most crucial natural wildernesses.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

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Excluded from jobs and housing, some of these new arrivals had turned to Islam as a welcoming alternative to the white society that denigrated them.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Jason Arday, a neurodivergent Black Cambridge professor who was feted as a wunderkind by some and denigrated as a fabulist by others, resigned earlier this month amidst accusations of plagiarism.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

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