prettify
Example Sentences
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A show that has never met a situation it couldn’t prettify and frill, that’s “Mrs. Maisel.”
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023
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
It is exquisitely photographed, not in a way to prettify things but to recognize their beauty.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2014
His job was not to prettify, but to warp and curdle.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2014
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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