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as in sickening
overly or insincerely flattering
a hagiographic portrait of one of the pioneers of the automotive age
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Recent Examples of hagiographic
What historians and theologians know about Francis comes primarily from his own writings and hagiographic texts.
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Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
Of course, a person making a hagiographic documentary about the production of the show for Netflix probably isn’t the world’s most neutral source.
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Sharon Adarlo,
Futurism,
14 Jan. 2026
In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Dec. 2025
Part of what makes Davies’s article so interesting is that is a refreshingly contrarian departure from the usual hagiographic treatment of Elon Musk, the precocious info-age Young Turk supposedly running rings around the sclerotic rust-belt competition.
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IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2016
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Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
Of course, a person making a hagiographic documentary about the production of the show for Netflix probably isn’t the world’s most neutral source.
—
Sharon Adarlo,
Futurism,
14 Jan. 2026
In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Dec. 2025
Part of what makes Davies’s article so interesting is that is a refreshingly contrarian departure from the usual hagiographic treatment of Elon Musk, the precocious info-age Young Turk supposedly running rings around the sclerotic rust-belt competition.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographic
Adjective
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Toxic fumes are leaking into airplanes and sickening passengers and crew members at an alarming rate, according to a September 2025 report by The Wall Street Journal.
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The concept of this many women vying for West is somewhat sickening to me.
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Besides being a record of events, the work is a crafty portrayal of kingship, presenting Akbar in an adulatory tone, as an exemplary and divinely favored ruler.
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Reggie’s solution is to hire Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe), an Oscar-winning documentarian, to make an adulatory film about him, changing public perception and opening new doors.
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Except for the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer.
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The announcement may come as a shock for country fans who have followed the couple through their sappy podcast appearances and gushy acceptance speeches.
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The salsa macha is an oily, toasty condiment pasty with peanuts and sesame seeds.
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Eucerin’s Clear Skin Sunscreen is formulated with oily, acne-prone skin in mind.
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One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
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Ted Cruz, the perennial front-runner, is smug and oleaginous—hated equally by his colleagues and the public.
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Remove the drain cover, clear any visible hair clogs, and soak the cover in white vinegar to remove soapy residue.
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Soak it in hot, soapy water for about 20 minutes, then give it another good scrub to remove any remaining buildup.
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The unctuous and sweet char siu pork jowl is interspersed with green apple pressed with lime and ginger for a bright and crisp counter to the fatty pig.
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Made with the unctuous 8-percent-fat milk of the water buffalo—animals that may have arrived in the area via the Normans by way of Sicily, or perhaps by the Goths coming from Central Asia—buffalo mozzarella has been produced at least since the twelfth century.
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Christian Pulisic is the most important player, but not the most demonstrative.
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Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.
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