gussied up
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Summer 2025’s blockbusters have been gussied up to seem as appealing and action-packed as ever.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
The film itself is a fairly slight story, gussied up in period costuming and hair.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024
On the bar food, staples of vermicelli noodles and sandwiches get gussied up with marbled beef and other high end meats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.”
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022
I was already picturing Nan’s brace gussied up, though she wasn’t one for sequins—maybe silver studs.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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