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lionize .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
lionize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assign great social importance to
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Examples
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They move to the right because they find that when they do so the newspaper proprietors and government officials and foundations send them invitations and lionise them.
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For the past four years, one of our goals has been to lionise the sources who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure, and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing.
Britain requests details of Julian Assange case, fueling speculation he is there Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi 2010
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Why, in the UK, does the very same paper - The Guardian - hound the Conservative communications director Andy Coulson, for allegedly permitting phone-tapping while he was an editor of a rival paper, yet lionise Assange for lifting private information in an equally shifty manner?
Indra Adnan: Wikileaks and the dis-connectivity of the web Indra Adnan 2010
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For the past four years, one of our goals has been to lionise the sources who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure, and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing.
Britain requests details of Julian Assange case, fueling speculation he is there Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi 2010
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This has lost him many, many friends on the left, when he has been campaigning against Muslim preachers or misogynist and homophobic rap artists, whom he believes we should not lionise.
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Personally, I find it wildly hypocritical and nauseating when people lionise vile and hateful public figures just because they're dead, and it makes me want to reach for the sick bucket.
If Seven Hundred Roissys Typed For Seven Hundred Years.... juliette 2009
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You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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If you can overlook Watergate in Nixon's case in order to lionise his other achievements, why not overlook Churchill's one great moment (WW2) and trumpet his utter incompetency in every other endeavour?
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You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise.
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