embellish

Special care was taken to alternate the curves of these shaped tusks in the concurrent rows, while the crown was embellished with a plume or a knob.

If the actual facts are so repugnant to you, then why embellish them?

Why did you feel the need to embellish and lie about your involvement in the UOF?

And like all bad liars, immediately gave into the urge to embellish.

He loved to embellish and we were determined not to let him slip one past us.

The actors in such scenes were not slow to magnify and embellish their own services at the expense of truth.

But the use of figures is natural, and at present they are used to embellish discourse and to give it greater vividness and force.

She takes out the sapphires and arrays them on her person to embellish her charms, but she places them on the table before her.

That he embellish it, whatever it may be, by his artistic interpretation and execution, is all that we should expect.

We travellers hold such an incident no great consequence, though it may serve to embellish the uniform life of Brown's Square.