idealize
Her characters go from idealization to disillusion, but they never become cynical.
The show is an idealization of America rooted in small businesses that magically sustain themselves.
It is my hope that we continue to evolve our understanding and idealization of beauty.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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