fancies up

present tense third-person singular of fancy up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancies up
Verb
  • As for transcendence, there’s a set of scenes when one character unexpectedly adorns red while another lines of blue.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The script adorns its skein of criminal dealings with idiosyncratic action, too.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An abstract profile of her decorates the annual tournament poster.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly every garish flight of fancy that decorates the frame is a distraction while the majority of the film does little more than rotely dramatize Kafka’s biography.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Fancies up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancies%20up. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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