tabloidize

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English

Etymology

From tabloid +‎ -ize.

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.
    • 2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times:
      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 failed a drug test, and she instinctively puts on the verbal brakes.