prettify
Example Sentences
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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
Apart from calling it a svizzerina and topping it with rosemary and whole garlic cloves, they make no attempt to prettify the chopped New York strip steak.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2015
His job was not to prettify, but to warp and curdle.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2014
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
