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v. To make pretty or prettier, especially in a superficial or insubstantial way.

To make pretty; embellish; especially, to make pretty in a petty, finical way, as by the excessive or fanciful use of ornament.

v. make more beautiful

"A strong argument even could be made that Krugman is wrong suggesting that the news media just wanted to "prettify" American history or that I was wrong in speculating that the distorted reporting on the Election 2000 recount was just a case of putting patriotism over professionalism."

prettified    prettifies    prettifying   

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