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

But Denis doesn’t just prettify her actors: She lingers on their forms, their skin, stressing texture that becomes tactile.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2019

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