dressed up

Example Sentences

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Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

However nicely these decisions and deciders are dressed up, the results have been absurd.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Sweeping out everybody over a certain age is an administrative shortcut dressed up as a solution.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Streeting told the BBC that "dangerous misinformation dressed up as expert advice is putting babies' lives at risk - and it must stop".

From BBC • May 5, 2026

The girls were dressed up more and all of them had on big sunglasses and fancy bags and led around these tiny leashed dogs that looked like little hamsters.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña