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tabloidizing

tabloidizing is the present participle and gerund of tabloidize.

Meaning of tabloidize

Verb

tabloidize (third-person singular simple present tabloidizes, present participle tabloidizing, simple past and past participle tabloidized)

  1. (transitive) To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.
    • Make the strategic mistake — toward the end of a pleasantly blunt chat conducted while traipsing around her farm and ogling its stellar inhabitants — of mentioning her tabloidized romance with Cian O’Connor, a garrulous Irish horseman who forfeited an Olympic gold medal in 2005 when his mount...2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times

Questions about tabloidizing

What is tabloidizing the present participle and gerund of?
Tabloidizing is the present participle and gerund of tabloidize.

Words near tabloidizing in the dictionary

  1. tabloidisms
  2. tabloidization
  3. tabloidize
  4. tabloidized
  5. tabloidizes
  6. tabloidizing
  7. tabloidlike
  8. tabloids
  9. tabloidy
  10. tabnab
  11. tabnabbing

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