DEGLAMORIZED Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

deglamorized

verb

past tense of deglamorize

as in minimized

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In this location, the telescope will rarely be blocked by Earth and infrared heat from the Earth, sun and moon is minimized.

— Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
States alleged that Meta’s internal research documented links between Instagram use and harms including depression, anxiety and body-image concerns among young people, while the company publicly minimized or concealed those risks.

— Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of minimized

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In the weeks since Love Island ended, two of Moreno’s castmates, Dean and Kenzie Annis, have made comments about Moreno online, including one instance in which Annis allegedly decried how much screen time Moreno received.

— Paula Mejía, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Last year, the panel also made several unwarranted changes to vaccine recommendations, including dropping the universal recommendation for a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine—a move widely decried by medical and health experts.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 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

Definition of denigrated

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