Definition of Sensationalize

1. Verb. To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sensationalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensationalize

sensation time
sensational
sensationalise
sensationalised
sensationalises
sensationalising
sensationalism
sensationalisms
sensationalist
sensationalistic
sensationalistically
sensationalists
sensationalizable
sensationalization
sensationalizations
sensationalize
sensationalized
sensationalizes
sensationalizing
sensationally
sensationless
sensations
sense
sense amplifier
sense amplifiers
sense datum
sense experience
sense impression
sense modality
sense of balance

Literary usage of Sensationalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1893)
"... to sensationalize, or at least to symbolize in terms of the biological sciences our psychological and philosophical knowledge. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"Sensation ' has always been the food of the playgoer, but the earlier Victorian drama never dared to sensationalize psychology. ..."

3. Perspectives on Crime and Justice: 1996-1997 Lecture Series by James Q. Wilson, Peter Reuter, Mark H. Moore, Cathy S. Widom, Norval Morris (1998)
"The media and politicians alike select and sensationalize dramatic and grossly unrepresentative crimes and criminals so that emotion dominates reason and ..."

4. Changing America: Studies in Contemporary Society by Edward Alsworth Ross (1912)
"Granted they sensationalize vice and crime, " play up " trivialities, exploit the private affairs of prominent people, embroider facts, and offend good ..."

5. The Country-life Movement in the United States by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"Writers are even now beginning to sensationalize it. But there will also arise countrymen with statesmanship in them; if not so, then we cannot make the ..."

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