romanticize
Verb
Meaning
interpret romantically
make romantic in style
act in a romantic way
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Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!
The designer romanticized the little black dress
And I don't want to overly romanticize a way of living that requires a lot of very hard work and doesn't have a lot of the "mod cons," the connectivity and stimulation, that I myself would not want to do without.
A realist, Aydin didn't gloss over the harshness of exile, but neither did he romanticize it.
But unlike her ilk, Noyes does nothing to romanticize rough-and-tumble girlhood.
Don’t let anyone romanticize Humbert Humbert’s very unhealthy and very creepy obsession with his twelve-year-old stepdaughter, especially Humbert Humbert!