prettify
Example Sentences
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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
Sometimes in a Gothic novel authors lose courage and prettify the end.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018
It is partly an aesthetic thing – they are trained to prettify the plate – and partly a crisis of faith in their own ability.
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.