Example Sentences

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The problem with the prettification of mental illness is just how out-of-kilter it is with reality.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

Hollywood is of course a business, one that’s in the business of prettification; often, our enjoyment of its product is incumbent on our suspension of disbelief.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2018

They have a similar directness, clarity, and elegance—but elegance with no prettification or softening from life’s coarser episodes.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2014

Gentrification, or at the very least prettification, has reshaped block after block in Harlem, but it has not fully arrived at East 126th Street between Madison and Park Avenues.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012

But printing pictures in color, in any medium, was considered a weakening of the fiber—an excursion into prettification or floridity.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob