Meaning & use
Hagiographic
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Excessively idealizing or flattering, especially in a biography or account of someone's life.
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Critics dismissed the film as a hagiographic portrait that ignored the leader's flaws.
The memoir reads less like honest history and more like a hagiographic tribute.
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Derived from 'hagiography,' the writing of saints' lives, the word is now used broadly and often critically for any overly worshipful biography.
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