titivate

Example Sentences

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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

Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'll give them half an hour's study whilst you wash up the tea things and titivate.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir