as in biography
disapproving
a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was
a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants
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Recent Examples of hagiography
The piece thankfully stops short of being a hagiography of Murrow: the point is made that by stepping so far out into partisan waters as distinct from just reporting the news, the great newsman opened the door to partisan attacks on a clearly partisan media.
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
The piece thankfully stops short of being a hagiography of Murrow: the point is made therein that by stepping so far out into partisan waters as distinct from just reporting the news, the great newsman opened the door to partisan attacks on a clearly partisan media.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Running Point is thinly veiled hagiography trying to pass itself off as a middling streaming series.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
In a music doc landscape pocked with overwrought hagiographies, The Makings of Curtis Mayfield does distinguish itself.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
The piece thankfully stops short of being a hagiography of Murrow: the point is made therein that by stepping so far out into partisan waters as distinct from just reporting the news, the great newsman opened the door to partisan attacks on a clearly partisan media.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Running Point is thinly veiled hagiography trying to pass itself off as a middling streaming series.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
In a music doc landscape pocked with overwrought hagiographies, The Makings of Curtis Mayfield does distinguish itself.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiography
Noun
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According to a 2020 biography of Melania Trump by Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan, the former Melania Knauss moved to New York City in 1996 and first modeled under a series of H-1B visas.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
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Culp expertly narrates the exposition (and in a forty-four-hour biography there’s plenty) and modulates his voice and pitch for different speakers.—
AudioFile Magazine
June 27,
Literary Hub,
27 June 2025
Noun
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In this conversation, six-foot-two author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres, Moo and Lucky) compares notes with her friend and counterpoint, six-foot-two novelist Susan Swan, author of the new memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry about the way Swan’s Amazonian size shaped her life.—
Jane Smiley
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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His 2023 memoir, Straight Shooter, is a New York Times bestseller.—
Danyel Smith,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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“Hagiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiography. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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