burnish
Example Sentences
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Mail-order catalogs such as the midcentury Sears, Roebuck Christmas edition overflowed with evocative shades—winterberry, burnished beige, rico green—meant to conjure a feeling as much as a hue.
With his practiced executive scowl and scripted boardroom catchphrase, “You’re fired!,” the show burnished his image as a decisive billionaire dealmaker, even as his real-life business results were far less impressive.
From Los Angeles Times
Tourism is a pillar of Middle Eastern governments’ quest to diversify and burnish their standing on the world stage.
Tech billionaires looking to burnish their image seem to believe that the work ethic is an expendable feature of a free-market society.
To many, the sight of Paul being clapped into cuffs may have even burnished her renegade image.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
