rose-tint

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Etymology 1

Back formation from look through rose-tinted glasses

Verb

rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)

1. (idiomatic) To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
   • 2016, Ellie Rose McKee, Wake: Poetry and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 16:

     James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth.

   • 2016, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel, Nigel Linacre, Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World, →ISBN:

     The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace.

   • 2016, Lionel Rose, 'Rogues and Vagabonds': Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2018 January, “Wild Things”, in North and South:

     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.

Etymology 2

Verb

rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)

1. To tint with the color rose; to suffuse with a rosy hue.
   • 1838, Frances Sargent Osgood, A wreath of wild flowers from New England, page 250:

     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.

   • 1863, The Eagle: A Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 53:

     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.

   • 1893, The Academy and Literature - Volume 43, page 466:

     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.

   • 1994, Norman Harrison, The Three Men of Gragareth, →ISBN, page 153:

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

Anagrams

• ortstein, snottier, tenorist, tritones