prettify

Example Sentences

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A show that has never met a situation it couldn’t prettify and frill, that’s “Mrs. Maisel.”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 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

It is exquisitely photographed, not in a way to prettify things but to recognize their beauty.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2014

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

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis