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  • verb Present participle of pretty.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Timing the Housing Market in Houston 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Since this accounting change, we've seen two major institutions prettying up their financial statements.

    Rep. Alan Grayson: On Goldman Sachs Ditching December 2009

  • 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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