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Definition of Prettified
1. prettify [v] - See also: prettify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prettified
Literary usage of Prettified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Critical Notes on the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection by John Charles Van Dyke (1914)
"94 is so marked that one cannot help thinking that Van Dyck's assistants worked
upon it and prettified it. How seldom in the history and criticism of art do ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"... and is not improbable, that the early volumes were tampered with, and "prettified"
generally, by the publishers; of course, with the best intentions. ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"... prettified, remote. Every now and then, with an irritating frequency, he tries
to transport his audience to a literary Fairyland; but the reader is ..."
4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"And yet it is somehow unreal, prettified, remote. Every now and then, with an
irritating frequency, he tries to transport his audience to a literary ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1875)
"... not of Parisian design, but prettified about the arms and shoulders with lace
and muslin. Gloves are unknown ; you receive your partner's hand as nature ..."
6. America's Coming-of-age by Van Wyck Brooks (1915)
"You run through his poems with a quite astounding sense of talent wasted,
prettified, conventionalized for the want of animating [9.8] ..."
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