embellished
Example Sentences
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Recent decisions, including deals to sell apparel embellished with Mickey Mouse or NFL logos, have raised eyebrows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
So she kept making them, encouraged by the rave reviews: A chocolate cake for Escoto’s 24th birthday, airbrushed in psychedelic blue and green and embellished with gummy bears.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
They have embellished those spreadsheet credentials with their deeds on the pitch too.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
Peter Wright KC said that the messages that Dzhambazov sent did not "contain proposals of harm" and that his client "embellished" his actions to make more money from them.
From BBC • May 9, 2025
Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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