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trinketize

trinketize verb: to reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.

Verb

trinketize (third-person singular simple present trinketizes, present participle trinketizing, simple past and past participle trinketized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
    • Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.1995, M. Joseph Sirgy, A. Coskun Samli, New Dimensions in Marketing/Quality-Of-Life Research, page 306
    • One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience.2002, William E. Leuchtenburg, American Places: Encounters With History, page 63

Forms of trinketize

third-person singular presenttrinketizes
present participletrinketizing
past participletrinketized
pasttrinketized

Origin of trinketize

From trinket + -ize.

Questions about trinketize

What does trinketize mean?
Trinketize means to reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.
What part of speech is trinketize?
Trinketize is a verb.
What is the past tense of trinketize?
The past tense of trinketize is trinketized.

Words near trinketize in the dictionary

  1. trinketer
  2. trinketers
  3. trinketing
  4. trinketings
  5. trinketization
  6. trinketize
  7. trinketized
  8. trinketizes
  9. trinketizing
  10. trinketlike
  11. trinketries

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