lionise

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Steve Jobs was a genius, but he wasn't the tech god that he's lionised as.

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assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

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verb

assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

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verb

assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

Example sentences

Steve Jobs was a genius, but he wasn't the tech god that he's lionised as.

It's easy to lionise Sparta when you become acquainted with the Theme Park version of it.

The Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, but I've never seen anything suggesting that they lionised the nuclear family.

And CAD is far from the domain of Macs, the item being lionised in the video - for example, AutoCad has been on Windows for 28 years, and took an 18-year hiatus on the Mac during this time.

Where are your city-states, each having their own international relations and cultural aspects?And, ultimately, where is the modern Greek's love of learning and knowledge, for which we lionise ancient Greece?

More often than not, work done in a rush, while tired and sleep-deprived and not thinking straight, is of poor quality, and I don't think it's in our interest to lionise "heroic" performance when the end result is not acceptable.