gussied up
Example Sentences
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Summer 2025’s blockbusters have been gussied up to seem as appealing and action-packed as ever.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
The game doesn’t need to be gussied up and marketed to an audience defiant about its ambivalence.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2023
On the bar food, staples of vermicelli noodles and sandwiches get gussied up with marbled beef and other high end meats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.”
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022
I was already picturing Nan’s brace gussied up, though she wasn’t one for sequins—maybe silver studs.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
