Glorified - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
(glorify)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
:* If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
English sarcastic terms
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has no English definition.
As a verb glorified
is past tense of glorify.As an adjective glorified
is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically.glorified
English
Verb
(head)- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"
