embellish
verb (used with object)
to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
embellisher
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a word derived from
embellish.
Example Sentences
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Critics seized on this clumsy assertion, made during a March 1999 CNN interview, to lampoon Mr. Gore as a brazen embellisher taking credit for the innovation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012
Mr. Stein asked would-be students, repeating one of several assertions about Mr. Gore that helped stoke his reputation as a serial embellisher.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012
Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.—Coleridge.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
The singing apple is as great an embellisher of wit as the dancing water is of beauty.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The person before you," continued Chou-hu, "is a barber and embellisher of pig-tails from the street leading to the Three-tiered Pagoda of Eggs.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
