gussied up
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On the bar food, staples of vermicelli noodles and sandwiches get gussied up with marbled beef and other high end meats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
I especially love it with breadcrumbs, roasted root vegetables, as a topper for soups or gussied up with fresh herbs, garlic and cream before being doused over a cheese-laden roasted chicken breast.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2022
This is 100 percent merlot, grown organically and not gussied up with oak or other flavors.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022
Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.”
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022
I was already picturing Nan’s brace gussied up, though she wasn’t one for sequins—maybe silver studs.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
