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primp

verb as in beautify and dress nicely

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Contestants primp and pose for what they think will be selfies, never suspecting that to those running the game, they’re just a face and a number.

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Lian primped, using a tiny comb to make sure her bangs were perfect.

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Still busy primping, his white-tipped tail twitched along with the beat.

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"Tonight is the first day of the rest of my life," the man says as he primps expectantly.

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While that character, Fleur, primped and preened for an imagined camera as if on a livestream, she bragged about her “social media fluency” on an address to a “royal hiring academy.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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