fancy up

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Recent Examples of fancy up The Toronto International Film Festival was also a font of high-end timepieces, with celebrities fancying up their wrists for the red carpet. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025 Leave it to the Barefoot Contessa to fancy up even the most basic of recipes. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025 The heightened vision of her in the supermarket, not quite lost but incongruously fancied up, hints at some of the more surreal moments ahead from Lin and cinematographer Zhang Jiahao. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024 Feel free to fancy up your one-bowl chocolate cake with your favorite purchased or homemade frosting and serve with a scoop of ice cream. Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancy up
Verb
  • From the cool, dank blue-gray tones of Maria’s basement to the clever signage that adorns the schoolroom walls, the production mechanics work to pull viewers further into this high stakes character study.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Thug has managed to find a way to push the envelope all these years later with Uy Scuti, adorning a Druski-esque whiteface that reads as a somewhat subversive take on the current moment’s politics.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Hollywood Walk of Fame takes up the sidewalk outside Kimmel's venue, with names as diverse as Roy Disney, Eva Longoria, Kelly Ripa, Paul Rudd and Chris Pratt decorating the pavement.
    Sarah Whitten,Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The home theater rooms featured here—from the chic sanctuary in Ralph Lauren’s Colorado residence to an upstairs film retreat in the US Virgin Islands—are decorated just as thoughtfully as any other room in the house.
    Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Fancy up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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