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
The ball was a neat little matter of fifty-five miles away, across country, so she had to start tolerably early, of course, in order to have comfortable time to "titivate," as Pip expressed it.
From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil
"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
Chastened, he realised what his audience meant to him—these thousands of unknown people whose minds he titivated, whose reason he juggled with and whose heart-strings he yanked, his tongue in his cheek.”
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
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
And finally, in his reflections as an ill-used man tied for life to a woman who knows not tact, Mr. Omicron asserted further that Mrs. Omicron only thought of spending and titivating herself.
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold
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 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
"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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
While you were titivating yourself at the hotel at Carhaix, I was running round to see what information I could pick up.
From The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Leblanc, Maurice
