titivate
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Sharp, salty and/or crunchy are the aims here, to titivate and offset the creamy avo.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019
Polari Nellyarda, zhoosh the riah, titivate, schlumph your Vera down, and palare that omee for the bevvies because I’ve nanti dinarli.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
One in three people in the UK – 20m – are gardeners and they spend £5bn a year at 30,000 garden-related businesses to titivate their flower beds, window boxes, allotments and lawns.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
They titivate their short hair: "nothing fantastic, no hint of Merseybeat".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2012
They said that when he saw the shearers coming he'd say, "Run and titivate yourself, Mary; here comes the shearers!"
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
"The sort of things that, dare I say, have been titivated up and had quite a bit of value added to them."
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
"If there were new insights, the proper course would be for the relevant evidence to be submitted to the police, not titivated and presented to the public under the guise of entertainment."
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2013
One of the formats in the BBC's titivated arts schedule is What Do Artists Do All Day?; the first subject is Jack Vettriano.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013
Mac himself had been trimmed and titivated almost out of recognition.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald
He is not above making occasional impromptu speeches or working for a laugh as he did last week with the titivating run in Arensky's Scherzo.
From Time Magazine Archive
I haven't gone in for titivating my complexion yet.
From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela
But the vast majority of literary producers aim at pastry, or, worse yet, confectionery,—something especially delightful and titivating to the taste.
From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John
To assert that she only thought of spending did not satisfy his spleen; he must add "titivating herself."
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold
The door was opened, and a dozen small beings came in, and began to search for an earthen pitcher with water; there they remained for some hours, washing and titivating themselves.
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Owen, Elias
