What's the difference between prettify and prettily?

Prettify


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Occasionally, I'd spot another woman at a team training camp, and they were always – always – a glammed-up TV reporter, all prettified in high heels and heavy makeup, while all around them were slobby male newspaper reporters.
  • (2) Haigh explains that it was important to resist prettifying: “I don’t want to overcomplicate my films with beauty.
  • (3) I don’t think we ought to prettify the US-China relationship in its current state.
  • (4) It's a direct descendant of PUNKSNOTDEAD , a joyfully violent, neon-drenched primal scream made by a developer called mooosh in just 12 hours – except Kopas' "cutie aesthetic" reinterpretation – where you prettify the game's world by embracing people and kittens – acts as an interrogation of traditional testosterone-fueled death fantasies.
  • (5) I don’t want to prettify or romanticise the Calais “jungle”.
  • (6) The snow won’t simply prettify the landscape, it will also increase its value: skiers will pay hundreds of pounds for a six-day lift pass, while the wealthiest winter visitors will spend several thousands to stay for a week in the town’s more expensive hotels.
  • (7) And were they – preposterous thought – to be made into films, who would look after the rights, who would make sure the plots were not straightened, the characters prettified?
  • (8) There are materials such as carpet squares and windowpanes for prettifying the work.
  • (9) Osborne tried to prettify his bulletin of gloom as best he could but, in US parlance, he was putting lipstick on a pig.
  • (10) It is tough work for the multinational crew of 30 in this rough-and-ready little boat, prettified below deck with posters of orang-utans and sunflowers painted in the toilets.
  • (11) But it does no service to the memory of the victims to prettify the horrific reality.
  • (12) But in Labour’s internal struggles, “unity” and “democracy” are rhetorical motifs for prettifying a ruthless power play, like the chivalric colours worn by knights before they joust to the death.
  • (13) Mr Branson gets a prettified bank, which he can now rename Virgin.

Prettily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a pretty manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nonetheless some caution in the game plan would be understandable and for the first 45 minutes DC executed a countering strategy effectively, if not always prettily.
  • (2) The content of cholesterol of patients with cancer is prettily constant and deviated only little from the normal.
  • (3) And that's his Cabinet of Curiosities all over: posh and polished and prettily poignant.
  • (4) Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening beyond my remit now that I am self-banished.
  • (5) The mayor has established a zoo on the prettily gardened seafront.
  • (6) The women around her, the chorus, all prettily dressed, are the convention.
  • (7) 8.10pm BST Kimberley has been juggling her psychologist duties with coursework essays and laughing prettily by the river with her boyfriend.
  • (8) When Perry mounted a coming out ceremony for Claire in 2000 in a London gallery, he decorated his girly silk brocade frock with the teddy alongside penises tied prettily with green ribbons.
  • (9) Obama's remarks were so prettily made that one almost hesitates to point out that we didn't actually do those things.
  • (10) USA buzzing around handily, if not yet prettily, early on.
  • (11) Quintamar, near Tavira, eastern Algarve Swimming pond at Quintamar There's nothing fancy about this little self-catering complex, which sits prettily within the Ria Formosa nature reserve at the quieter end of the Algarve.
  • (12) Parminter hides the complexity of the reciprocal relationship between advertising agencies and the markets they both reflect and create, in a glib formulation that is packaged up so prettily, we're meant to swallow it down whole.

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