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
Leight doesn’t prettify the ugly side of our history.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 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 partly an aesthetic thing – they are trained to prettify the plate – and partly a crisis of faith in their own ability.
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2016
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
