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- verb Present participle of
pretty .
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Examples
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Huuuuuuge amounts of money have been spent prettying it up, year in and year out.
Christmas Shopping In Ruraltown « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Oh the inspiration they gave me to do some tweeking of our home, moving things around a bit and prettying here and there!
Music Of Your Life 2009
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This is a better choice, for sure, but again, Stone is certainly prettying up the Bush family.
Olive Stone's W Biopic - What and Who? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Hopefully prettying up the cast will be the ONLY major influence McG has on the film. kevjohn on May 21, 2008
Christian Bale Officially Signed On for Three Terminator Films « FirstShowing.net 2008
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You'll be better off if you use the time before your husband's retirement for de-cluttering, landscaping and prettying-up your ho me so that it draws top dollar next spring.
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She made hers with an end table and mismatched chair, but by prettying the area up with a colored oilcloth and a fairy-print plaque it's a spot of beauty in her dining room -- just for small children.
Archive 2007-02-01 regina doman 2007
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She made hers with an end table and mismatched chair, but by prettying the area up with a colored oilcloth and a fairy-print plaque it's a spot of beauty in her dining room -- just for small children.
Snack Table regina doman 2007
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Allie was her usual blunt with the children, and after watching her, Edwina followed her lead, not prettying up the account.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Since this accounting change, we've seen two major institutions prettying up their financial statements.
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And I spend half the time prettying up the results (into colourful graphs) for the project manager to look at (which won't be a problem if the manager had a particular software installed instead of Excel...might ask about that, actually).
Following on... Lou 2009
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