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Definition of Prettifies
1. prettify [v] - See also: prettify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prettifies
Literary usage of Prettifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1846)
"... careless, and natural style, which distinguishes the volumes before us—a sty
le not only without sententious pretension, or antithetical prettifies*, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: From Easter Term 12 ...by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Capel Lofft, John Wilkes, Robert Wood, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Capel Lofft, John Wilkes, Robert Wood, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1790)
"That the jury do not find the defendant well knowing > : the.prettifies, £sV.
did entice, &?f. and that this is wrv material. .. That the plaintiff had ..."
3. Rump: Or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the (1662)
"... the French : He prettifies us with Feathers and Fans, With Petticoats, Doublets,
and Hose: And faith they shall Be welcome all If they forbear the nose. ..."
4. The Stones of Paris in History and Letters by Benjamin Ellis Martin, Charlotte M. Martin (1899)
"This present statue, placed here in the closing year of the Bourbon Restoration,
1829, prettifies and makes complacent that sombre and suspicious creature, ..."
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