dressed up

Example Sentences

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However nicely these decisions and deciders are dressed up, the results have been absurd.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Streeting told the BBC that "dangerous misinformation dressed up as expert advice is putting babies' lives at risk - and it must stop".

From BBC • May 5, 2026

“We got dressed up very nicely, very expensively,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

“The year before, when my daughter was almost 5, everyone was dressed up like Elsa. There were like five Elsas in her class at Halloween,” she recalls.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

"He once dressed up as Gilgamesh for Halloween. I was his sidekick, Enkidu—no surprise there."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda