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cosmeticized

cosmeticized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about cosmeticized

What is cosmeticized the simple past and past participle of?
Cosmeticized is the simple past and past participle of cosmeticize.

Words near cosmeticized in the dictionary

  1. cosmeticised
  2. cosmeticises
  3. cosmeticising
  4. cosmeticism
  5. cosmeticize
  6. cosmeticized
  7. cosmeticizes
  8. cosmeticizing
  9. cosmeticky
  10. cosmeticology
  11. cosmeticorexia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmeticized (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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