Tabloid vs Tabloidize - What's the difference?
tabloid | tabloidize |
(publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.
In the format of a .
Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 12, author=Robin Finn, title=Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight, work=New York Times
, passage=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. }}
As an adjective tabloid
is tabloid.As a noun tabloid
is tabloid.As a verb tabloidize is
to convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.tabloid
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow pressAntonyms
* broadsheetAdjective
(-)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
See also
* compact * quality newspaper ----tabloidize
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Verb
(tabloidiz)citation