prettify
Example Sentences
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Instead, they take an approach that is at once more generous and more unsparing, refusing to either condemn their characters or prettify them.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
A court blocked the new owner’s attempts to prettify the courtyard with a new shed for the rubbish bins, and by insulating the walls.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2016
It is exquisitely photographed, not in a way to prettify things but to recognize their beauty.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2014
Mark Romanek, director of the transcendent “Hurt” video, made late in Cash’s life, said he didn’t want “to prettify the whole thing.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2013
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
