Definition of "lionizing" [lionizing]

• Present participle of lionize. (verb)

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• "Forget that this was the hyperbole country of talk radio; forget that Pippen used the equivocal "may;" forget that a Bulls Kremlinologist would argue that Pippen was actually needling his canonized teammate "greatest scorer" has the whiff of faint praise more than he was lionizing a newcomer."
• "What's amazing is that even the Liberal In Name Only New York Times is lionizing Reagan -- is this selective memory driven by fears that conservative readers might cancel their subscriptions if they did otherwise?"
• ""If he'd achieved the same results in the opposite order, people would be lionizing him now," says Christopher Davis , chairman of Davis Advisors and a friend and competitor of Mr. Miller's."