titivate
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Sharp, salty and/or crunchy are the aims here, to titivate and offset the creamy avo.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019
Polari Nellyarda, zhoosh the riah, titivate, schlumph your Vera down, and palare that omee for the bevvies because I’ve nanti dinarli.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
One in three people in the UK – 20m – are gardeners and they spend £5bn a year at 30,000 garden-related businesses to titivate their flower beds, window boxes, allotments and lawns.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
They titivate their short hair: "nothing fantastic, no hint of Merseybeat".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2012
You'll excuse me, Johnnie, while I go and titivate myself.
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
"The sort of things that, dare I say, have been titivated up and had quite a bit of value added to them."
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
"If there were new insights, the proper course would be for the relevant evidence to be submitted to the police, not titivated and presented to the public under the guise of entertainment."
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2013
One of the formats in the BBC's titivated arts schedule is What Do Artists Do All Day?; the first subject is Jack Vettriano.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013
So she brushed up Andrew, tied his scarf, saw his boots and hands were clean, and titivated him generally till she had converted the ungainly hobbledehoy into a thoroughly "likely young mon."
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
He is not above making occasional impromptu speeches or working for a laugh as he did last week with the titivating run in Arensky's Scherzo.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What about all this stuff?" she asks, while titivating herself; "we'd better not leave it about, it looks so untidy."
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
But the vast majority of literary producers aim at pastry, or, worse yet, confectionery,—something especially delightful and titivating to the taste.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
She stopped titivating herself at the mirror, and turning round groaned in a voice of horror: “Wou je eten?”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown
It lay open, and anybody could use the things that wanted to; I didn't, but had a good look while E. E. was titivating in the crowd before the glass.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
