Disneyfy

English Etymology From en Disney fy, with reference to the Disney theme parks. Verb en transitive usually pejorative To make something (especially a location) more acceptable or marketable by removing potentially distasteful, controversial or boring elements, particularly at the cost of its history and culture. en 1994 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests Workshop and hearing on New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music. en 1996 w:Douglas Coupland Postcard from Palo Alto w:Polaroids from the Dead New York, N.Y. w:ReganBooks part 2 (Portraits of People and Places) 117 https://archive.org/details/polaroidsfromdea00coup/page/117/mode/1up 0-06-039149-9 The overall feel on today is prehistoric. There is a mood of dilophosauri and raptors lurking hungrily in the oak copses—of the savagery that lurks to recapture even the most Disneyfied of environments in the absence of vigilance. 2018-08-29 w:Farhad Manjoo ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There? https://web.archive.org/web/20180829115306/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/technology/technology-overtourism-europe.html Every summer, the most popular European destinations get stuffed to the gills with tourists, who outnumber locals by many multiples, turning hot spots into sweaty, selfie-stick-clogged, “Disneyfied” towns. 2023-10-11 Jonathan Jones Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters https://web.archive.org/web/20231011180953/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/11/frieze-london-art-fair-review-regents-park-london Frieze has become a corporate snooze. Have the galleries been actively encouraged by its big-business owners to Disneyfy themselves? Related terms en Disneyfication en Disneylandification Translations Esperanto: eo diznejigi French: fr disneyifier German: de disneyfizieren See also en G-rated en eponyms en Disney