tabloidize

present singular third person tabloidizes · participle present tabloidizing · participle past tabloidized · past tabloidized

1. transitiveTo convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.

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   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.

   2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times