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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pretty .
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Examples
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I wish I could see Marblehead as it was a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago, before it was prettied up and gentrified.
"...our ghosts to wander all the water." greygirlbeast 2009
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And that was yesterday, snipped and styled and prettied up.
"The tides will come and go, witnessed by no waking eye." greygirlbeast 2009
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Readers 'photos of costumed cats and prettied pooches getting in the Halloween spirit -- or at least their owners are.
Offbeat News: Weird, strange, crazy and odd stories and headlines 2010
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Finally, for dessert, we'll have a mild, tangy cheesecake made with goat cheese after all, it's believed that goats—not cows—came across on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims, prettied up with a scattering of candied pumpkin seeds and a rustic tart of spiced pears, robed in a soft and sweet cornmeal crust.
Going Native Sarah Karnasiewicz 2011
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This is not a new game … its a prettied up version of the original OutRun in arcades years ago.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The XBLA release of a spruced up Outrun looks fun! 2009
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Click the link and look at the picture with the station all prettied up for Christmas.
Top 10 historic train stations Dan Malouff 2010
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Readers 'photos of costumed cats and prettied pooches getting in the Halloween spirit -- or at least their owners are.
Offbeat News: Weird, strange, crazy and odd stories and headlines 2010
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Little chance of that happening with the Rethugs/conservatives, since their response to (almost) everything is a prettied-up version of “Hulk SMASH!” democraticcore says:
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An incongruous pairing in the extreme, but far be it for me to throw out a free beauty product due to my preconceived notions about how politics (and politicians) need a lot more than lipstick to get prettied up in the eyes of the public these days.
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But a new trend has emerged for summer 2010: prettied up financial guides, memoirs and fictional tales of women who, armed with outrageous credit card limits, spent beyond their means, found themselves at rock bottom and lived to tell the tale.
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