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Sydney, if tarted up to present a trivial, cosy image to tourists
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disneyfy
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context usually pejorative English) To make something (especially a location) more acceptable or marketable by removing potentially distasteful, controversial or boring elements, particularly at the cost of its historical nature. Or, to make a place ...
Usage examples of disneyfy.
Mass-mediated politicians and Disneyfied audioanimatrons inhabit a strange postmodern space, a "distancing at the heart of the thing" that "is not a simple change of place," but rather a self-distancing in which the object itself is transformed into its own image or simulacrum (Blanchot).
Tom was sure one of them would take him home or go with him to the docks, if there were any docks left to go to, if they hadn't been Disneyfied like Times Square.
It has led to a Disneyfied culture that evades the serious meaning -the gravitas, if you like - of existence.
They weren't the twee little Disneyfied things that Robert seemed to be thinking of.
They weren’t the twee little Disneyfied things that Robert seemed to be thinking of.