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They ` re kind of gussying up her so they can put her out on the street, you know.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2008 2008

This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.

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NBC Universal is in the throes of gussying up Oxygen.

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On their new album, "Dunya," the gussying-up seems unnecessary: With Prince, James Brown and Afrobeat as influences, Mr. Tanga is best when he lets loose, which should mean an electrifying performance.

Rock, Rhythm and Blues 2010

She put on the small amount of makeup she wore for work, not wanting to seem as if she were gussying up in any way.

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This does not hold, of course, if the poet is gussying up a simple thought or feeling in obscure language.

Travis Nichols: 'Infidel Poetics' and Magic Unicorns 2009

Unless, of course, he surprises us skeptics by actually fixing up Sunbeam rather than merely gussying it up for sale -- in which case he might just give chain saws a good name.

Here We Go Again 2008

Sell: One theory is that Sony is gussying up the film studios for sale.

The Sony Scenarios 2008

Or is it little more than lipstick on a pig the gussying up of age-old tactics?

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I've only got one bone to pick with this calendar, and that is its gussying up of Malkin in a mink coat.

Disgrasian: Isn't She... Pretty in Mink? 2008