Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
editorialize \ed`i*to"ri*al*ize\ v. i.
to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.
to insert personal opinions into an article or statement that is supposed to be an objective statement of facts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"introduce opinions into factual accounts," 1856, from editorial + -ize. Related: Editorialized; editorializing; editorialization.
Wiktionary
vb. To express one's opinion as if in an editorial, or as if it were an objective statement.
WordNet
v. insert personal opinions into an objective statement [syn: editorialise]
Usage examples of "editorialize".
Many of those newspapers that failed to report the whole story then seized upon the horror at the Appalachian School of Law to editorialize once again against handguns.
The police escorted her to a hospital with the child, and the subeditor proceeded to editorialize on the evils of unconventional lifestyles and the effects of domestic violence in a positively Hogarthian manner.
However, in spite of frequent counseling with explanation of the reasons for the conservative policy on an AF base newspaper, Airman Thompson has consistently written controversial material and leans so strongly to critical editorializing that it was necessary to require that all his writing be thoroughly edited before release.
The last thing a good copy editor does is editorialize, on his own, in the author's text.
The day before Saddam's capture, the New York Times editorialized, "The way to deal with all that is going wrong in Iraq remains as clear as it was on the day that Mr.
The New York Times editorialized that Bush's plan for military tribunals was "an insult to the exquisite balancing of executive, legislative and judicial powers that the framers incorporated into the Constitution.
The Richmond, Virginia News-Leader editorialized: "Project Bluebook officials, the Air Force people who are supposed to identify mysterious objects in the sky, are seeing stars again.
Typical of the contemporaneous fawning over the man who helped condemn a billion people to a Communist slave state, the New York Post editorialized: "All those who believe in freedom in this country are in the debt of Owen Lattimore.
Of course, Barnes and Womack address present-day issues more or less directly in their books, but there's a fine line between interesting commentary and interruptive editorializing.