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

It is partly an aesthetic thing – they are trained to prettify the plate – and partly a crisis of faith in their own ability.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2016

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

But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis