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Embellish

Embellish meaning

To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate. | To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary. | To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.

Example sentences (20)

Don’t embellish any details, but state the facts as they were.

NEW YORK (AP) — The ex-treasurer for U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Thursday to a fraud conspiracy charge and implicated the indicted New York Republican in a scheme to embellish his campaign finance reports with a fake loan and fake donors.

As a result, they often sugar-coat the truth, lie, or embellish the reality for their little people.

If you are writing your own life experiences, you are going to embellish it a bit.

Joe Biden's biggest problem might not be age-related challenges after all: President Joe Biden has a tendency to embellish – a tendency that the right hopes to use against the incumbent as he seeks reelection.

When asked if either of those two would be back, Guardiola replied pointedly “no” and refused to embellish further on his latest injury woes.

You can almost imagine the whole as being animated, the triangles and lines slightly vibrating as they draw themselves onto the white page and outline / embellish the two black-and-white images of the subjects.

A prolific ladies' man who will hit on any woman he sees, these similar characters will often embellish their own skill-set, but when it comes down to it, they don't always hit the mark.

Ghajnsielem Mayor Kevin Cauchi said that the funds received will be used to embellish the St Eliju belvedere for the better enjoyment of local families.

Her sculptural wall hangings and surface designs (which embellish the aesthetics and function of an object) have been commissioned by her alma mater as well as private clients in the U.S., Hong Kong and France.

The project, announced last year, is set to double the open space available at Ta’ Qali National Park and embellish the 52,000 square metres of land previously occupied by a dilapidated concrete factory.

These bright leaves with their bold texture embellish our shady gardens from spring until October when the tubers go dormant.

You want to find THE tree that will embellish and embalm your home?

Doug Miller joined in with his creative violin—how does he know just how to embellish what the rest of the band is playing?

The leaf transfer process is used to embellish women’s tops, scarves and eye pillows.

This scratch map will allow them to tick off the countries that they have been to as well as embellish their walls with a retro-looking poster.

For like all good story-tellers, he’d embellish a bit here and a tad there to make the story a little better.

Informative liner notes and archival photographs embellish the recordings.

She said: 'Instead of using plastic accessories to maybe embellish garments.

Since Incredibles was already a comedy, the Lego version doesn’t have to embellish too much, but there are some added gags.