tabloidize

English

Etymology

tabloid +‎ -ize

Verb

tabloidize (third-person singular simple present tabloidizes, present participle tabloidizing, simple past and past participle tabloidized)

1. (transitive) To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.
   • 2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.