prettify
Example Sentences
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Leight doesn’t prettify the ugly side of our history.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023
The reader struggles, along with Vanessa, to make sense of what is happening, to interpolate, to see the truth, with so many false accounts, so many delusions, so many efforts to neaten or prettify.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2020
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
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
