tabloidize en · VERB
Etymology
From tabloid + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.
Make the strategic mistake — toward the end of a pleasantly blunt chat conducted while traipsing around her farm and ogling its stellar inhabitants — of mentioning her tabloidized romance with Cian O’Connor, a garrulous Irish horseman who forfeited an Olympic gold medal in 2005 when his mount failed a drug test, and she instinctively puts on the verbal brakes.
2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tabloidizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tabloidized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tabloidized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| tabloidizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |