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cosmeticise

cosmeticise is the alternative form of cosmeticize.

Meaning of cosmeticize

Verb

cosmeticize (third-person singular simple present cosmeticizes, present participle cosmeticizing, simple past and past participle cosmeticized)

  1. To make attractive, to superficially improve the appearance of
    • But to ignore or attempt to cosmeticize Kelly's history of political and institutional racism is a disgrace.2000 January 7, Don Rose, “What a Whitewash”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of cosmeticise

third-person singular presentcosmeticises
present participlecosmeticising
past participlecosmeticised
pastcosmeticised

Origin of cosmeticise

From cosmetic + -ise.

Questions about cosmeticise

What is cosmeticise the alternative form of?
Cosmeticise is the alternative form of cosmeticize.

Words near cosmeticise in the dictionary

  1. cosmetic-surgical
  2. cosmetical
  3. cosmetically
  4. cosmetician
  5. cosmeticians
  6. cosmeticise
  7. cosmeticised
  8. cosmeticises
  9. cosmeticising
  10. cosmeticism
  11. cosmeticize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmeticise (page history and authors); cosmeticize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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