Meaning of rose-tint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
   idiomatic
2. To tint with the color rose; to suffuse with a rosy hue.

Examples

“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.”

“Mr. Moore has this year a dangerous rival in a little known artist, Mr. thomas Somerscales, who sends a seascape "Corvette shortening sail to pick up a ship-wrecked crow", in which the heavy bosom of the ocean, dark azure under a serene evening sky freed from the clouds which, rose-tinted by the sunset, are just sinking below the horizon, is presented in unsurpassable fashion.”

“The evening was clear and the last vestiges of sunset were still rose-tinting streamers of cirrus across the sky.”

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