(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.