manicure
Example Sentences
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Where the Academy had the polished and manicured look of a college campus, this looked every inch the uninhabited wilderness.
From Literature
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With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.
From Salon
She began stabbing her perfectly manicured nails at her computer keyboard.
From Literature
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The schools, clinics, the manicured golf course — onetime amenities from an industry awash in petrodollars — gone or overgrown with weeds.
From Los Angeles Times
Swiping through Tinder in Saudi Arabia, a profile of a woman in her mid-20s includes photos of her manicured hands holding flowers, a matcha latte, a tennis court and some art.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.