Word info Synonyms

airbrushed

Speech parts

1. airbrushed - Adjective

2. airbrushed - Verb

Meaning

airbrushed

simple past and past participle of airbrush

Having been manipulated with an airbrush.

(by extension) Having had imperfections and blemishes removed through digital manipulation.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth. Björk

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. Alberto Manguel

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music! Jonathan King

My pictures are airbrushed. Cindy Margolis

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. Janice Dickinson

What surrounds us is not sex itself but the illusion of sex, and airbrushed vision of enforced fun-fisting sexuality that is as sterile as it is relentless. Laurie Penny

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