Rose-tint

Full definition of rose-tint

(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 , James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth.
2016 , Richard Bolden, â€ŽMorgen Witzel, â€ŽNigel Linacre , Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World , 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 , 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, , Wild Things , 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.

1838 , Frances Sargent Osgood , A wreath of wild flowers from New England , 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 , Rose on the Monday eventful, old Sol, in his splendour of Autumn, Softly rose-tinting the barÃ©d 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 , 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 , The evening was clear and the last vestiges of sunset were still rose-tinting streamers of cirrus across the sky.