Crossword clues for telegenic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1939, from television + ending from photogenic.\n\nJudith Barrett, pretty and blonde actress, is the first Telegenic Girl to go on record. In other words, she is the perfect type of beauty for television. ... She is slated for the first television motion picture.
[Baltimore "Sun," Oct. 16, 1939]
Wiktionary
a. 1 having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers 2 televisual
Usage examples of "telegenic".
They got away with a member of the Scottish executive having a dildo jammed up his bahookie by a piece of telegenic jail-bait.
Aaron Pursley had already said, twice, how it was going to be bigger than the Pookey Bear thing, and Karen kept saying how telegenic Chevette was, and about the youth angle, and how Chrome Koran would fall all over themselves to do the music.
I had no idea which of these slogans were sincere, and which were conscious theatrics-where the telegenic sugar-coating I'd asked for ended, and Mosala's real passions began-but then, she may not have been entirely clear about the borders, herself.
Cynically, she ticked off her advantages: she was telegenic, she’d cultivated a network of useful media contacts, and she’d learned the hard way to develop a cool, authoritative persona to deal with the most difficult of interviewers and the thorniest of questions.