glorified
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glorified (comparative more glorified, superlative most glorified)
- transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
- 1959, Andrew Gray, A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion:
- The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top […]
- 1986, Roy Lubove, The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935:
- Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
- 2004, Lloyd Manning Wells, From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story:
- If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
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