prettify

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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

All in all, this “4.48” avoids neither the text’s moments of pitch-black humor nor its passages of luminous air; it doesn’t prettify Kane, nor does it make her brutality unendurable.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2019

A court blocked the new owner’s attempts to prettify the courtyard with a new shed for the rubbish bins, and by insulating the walls.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 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