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prettify

[prit-uh-fahy] / ˈprɪt əˌfaɪ /








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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

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

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




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