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cosmeticize
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cos·met·i·cize  (kz-mt-sz)
tr.v. cos·met·i·cized, cos·met·i·ciz·ing, cos·met·i·ciz·es
To make superficially attractive or acceptable: "cosmeticized packages of song and dance for easy audience consumption" (Saturday Review).
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This may serve as a counterbalance to how our culture handles death - by denial and avoidance and cosmeticizing.
A Perfect Place to Live: Benedictine monasteries by McPherson, Clair / Spirituality & Health Magazine
America is also a culture hell-bent on denying the fact of Death--by ignoring, cosmeticizing, or euphemizing it--and, like it or not, death is intimately involved with sex: Eros and Thanatos, the perennial couple.
Reflections on gay male porn. (Essay) by Helms, Alan / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
By endorsing the SIM and the politics it stood for--and even more by cosmeticizing its purposes--Hemingway revealed not just how pressing political questions were for him in 1937 but also a Machiavellian indifference to their moral dimensions.
HEMINGWAY ON STAGE: THE FIFTH COLUMN, POLITICS, AND BIOGRAPHY by RAEBURN, JOHN / The Hemingway Review
 
 
 
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