Disneyize

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From Disney +‎ -ize.

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Disneyize (third-person singular simple present Disneyizes, present participle Disneyizing, simple past and past participle Disneyized)

  1. Synonym of Disneyfy
    • 1987, Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music, revised paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages xxvi–xxvii:
      Yet a fixation on Alice cannot promise a future; indeed Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, originally spawned on Broadway, is a far more "adult" piece than Tredici's Alice, which Disneyizes the semi-artistic, semi-industrial medium of the mammoth symphony orchestra.

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