rose-tint
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
Example Sentences
- "James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth."
- "The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace."
- "This was the heyday of street begging 'characters' when French war veterans, real or bogus, played on the public's sympathy with ghastly wounds (real or fabricated), and a later generation looked back on it nostalgically undoubtedly exaggerating and rose-tinting the reality."
- "I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety."
- "But not for the sun-burst on high, And not for the rose-tinting ray, But for something far holier, I Will bless the sweet coming of May."
- "Rose on the Monday eventful, old Sol, in his splendour of Autumn, Softly rose-tinting the baréd limbs of the lime and the sturdy Old oak conquer'd at last; rose-tinting the weeping willows, Drooping their amber leaves to the bank of the swollen river."