spruced up

ADJECTIVE

dressed to the nines

Synonyms

WEAK

dolled up dressed to advantage dressed to kill dressed to the teeth dressed-up gussied up in full dress in full feather soignée spiffed up well-dressed well-turned-out

ADJECTIVE

dressed up

Synonyms

WEAK

dolled up dressed to kill dressed to the nines fashionable formal gussied up in full dress in one's best bib and tucker ornate

ADJECTIVE

natty

Synonyms

WEAK

chic chichi classy clean dainty dapper dashing dressed to kill dressed to the nines elegant fashionable neat prim sharp slick smart snazzy spiffy spruce stylish swanky trim well-groomed well-turned-out

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On a recent spring evening at Loma Alta Park — spruced up by the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, since the league’s former home at Farnsworth Park remains unusable — Gardner couldn’t help but smile.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

He’s pleased to see the estate being spruced up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

By that point, gay marriage had become the law of the land and a new bar using the Stonewall name, now spruced up for tourists, had taken over the space, with a museum next door.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2024

He spruced up worker facilities that had become dilapidated.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024

Last summer my mom and I spruced up the old cupboards with a coat of high-gloss white and threw down some chunky black and white checked linoleum.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

spruced up

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