mythologized
past simple and past participle ofmythologize
mythologize
verb[IorT]
mainlyUS(UKusuallymythologise)uk/mɪˈθɒl.ə.dʒaɪz/us/mɪˈθɑː.lə.dʒaɪz/tocreateafalsepictureof asituation:
Peopletendto mythologize(about)theiryouth/the past.
Opposite
demythologize
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- a pack of liesidiom
- artifice
- bad faith
- black is whiteidiom
- cakeism
- canard
- falsification
- feedsomeonea lineidiom
- fib
- fiction
- flimflam
- lie
- mythologically
- mythologize
- perjure
- perjury
- porky
- stretch the truthidiom
- white lie
- whopper
Examplesofmythologized
mythologized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Additionally, as much research has demonstrated, martial qualities have often been invented, embellished, andmythologizedfor political reasons.
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Through such performances landscapes constituted networks of socially significant places and landmarks which became imagined,mythologized, marginalized and contested in their various representations.
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They thus question those values that have becomemythologizedand romanticized by the present culture.
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The journey has been fictionalized andmythologizedin literature since the 19th century.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His somewhat unreliable memoirmythologizedhis origins as a futurist, and emphasized his upbringing near a noisy machine shop and an ominous prison.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nature became one thing with female figures, andmythologizedwomen were identified with nymphs or represented as a goddess.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Songs and movies about truck drivers were first popular in the 1940s, andmythologizedtheir wandering lifestyle in the 1960s.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hence, pathology is inherentlymythologized, just as all mythology is pathologized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nerio was later supplanted bymythologizeddeities appropriated and adapted from other religions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The circumstances of his early death have been muchmythologized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In modern times the descriptions of the military use of nagyka tend to bemythologized, and it the past the prime and predominant use was to drive horse.
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