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
It would be five o'clock before he finished his work: at six he had an engagement, and it would take him some time to wash and titivate.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"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
She titivated her little charge with her own brisk hands; then she brought out: "I'm going to divorce your father."
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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
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
"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
The door was opened, and a dozen small beings came in, and began to search for an earthen pitcher with water; there they remained for some hours, washing and titivating themselves.
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen
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 Maurice Leblanc
