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  • adjective Not prettified.

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un- +‎ prettified

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Examples

  • With convincing, unprettified narration, Walls weaves her own ancestor into this collective rough-and-tumble heritage.

    Half Broke Horses: Summary and book reviews of Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. 2009

  • Suffolk saunter ...the green and gold of this most unspoilt and unprettified of counties....

    Suffolk saunter Carla 2008

  • Suffolk saunter ...the green and gold of this most unspoilt and unprettified of counties....

    Archive 2008-09-01 Carla 2008

  • Helen Gordon, a former associate editor of Granta making her novelistic debut, deftly colours-in Alice's lifestyle: the "unprettified canals and blockish concrete industrial units" where she lives; the men with a "certain haircut" who gravitate east; the unglamorous, casual reality of a pass-the-vodka-bottle drinking culture that persists well beyond student years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • I may only be interested in half the subjects, the delivery may be dry, but that's the point, this is the 'life of the mind' in its academic form, unadorned and unprettified.

    SpikeMagazine.com 2010

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