mythologizeverb [ I or T ]
mainly US UK usually mythologise uk/mɪˈθɒl.ə.dʒaɪz/us/mɪˈθɑː.lə.dʒaɪz/to create a false picture of a situation:
People tend to mythologize (about) their youth/the past.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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