as in biography
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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
By 1978, when this image was republished in one of Mao’s many hagiographies, Peng Zeng had disappeared.
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Nan Z. Da
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Hagey’s book, written with Altman’s cooperation, is less critical, but no hagiography.
—Tim Wu, New York Times, 19 May 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
Straight-up hagiographies and hit jobs thankfully weren’t options.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
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Nan Z. Da
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Hagey’s book, written with Altman’s cooperation, is less critical, but no hagiography.
—Tim Wu, New York Times, 19 May 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
Straight-up hagiographies and hit jobs thankfully weren’t options.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiography
Noun
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The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.—
Langdon Hammer,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Oct. 2025
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Born in Ogden, Utah, in 1940, Stallings served a mission to New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the early 1960s, according to his House of Representatives biography.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Oct. 2025
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Tuesday marked the publication of Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, which might have turned the spotlight back onto the president’s long friendship with Epstein.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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From memoir to literary fiction and from light to dark, these stories—though often complex in content—envelop us in simpler times.—
Nora Dahlia,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Hagiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiography. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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