Definitions
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- noun colloquial The act of making someone or something
pretty . - noun colloquial The act of improving an
interface in positive ways.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "beautification algorithm" is more properly a "prettification" one, I think--generally speaking, it turned beautiful and interesting faces into boring faces.
Random Shots from All Over The Year in Pictures 2008
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And Lionel Shriver gets her teeth into the issue of male versus female novelists and gives it a good shake, arguing that female writers never receive the kind of accolades awarded to their male counterparts, and suffer from an infantilizing 'prettification' by marketing departments: ... trussing up my novels as sweet, girly and soft is like stuffing a rottweiler in
FictionBitch 2010
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Some have got sniffy about the 'prettification' of his music as he moved away from dissonance but I think whatever he releases is of such a standard we can trust him to always be interesting and engaging, however small or large the progressions.
The Line Of Best Fit 2009
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His gesture of confidence: Vornado Realty Trust, of which he is CEO and chairman, will within three months begin construction on a more than $100 million rehabilitation and prettification of 330 Madison Avenue, the classy old broad of a building at the near-peerless corner of 42nd Street.
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One of the reasons I loved the movie The Departed was because in every single frame, a hard, dark, ugly truth was being spoken -- without apology or prettification -- and that of itself was beautiful.
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Daley explains his passion for prettification by recalling that shortly after being elected in 1989 he took a train from Washington to New York, and was struck by the ugliness travelers saw as trains entered and left cities along the way.
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Straight men are not wired in the art of prettification thank goodness.
In Which I Succumb to the Keira Knightley/All Things British Vogue Becca 2006
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In any case, prettification reached its peak and because I ended up with an extra ticket I was able to get hubby in as well.
Archive 2006-06-01 fusenumber8 2006
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The government's prettification efforts in the pending Supreme Court cases continue. posted by Eric 5: 22 PM |
IsThatLegal? 2004
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Straight men are not wired in the art of prettification thank goodness.
Archive 2006-05-01 Becca 2006
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