Crossword-Solution: TITIVATE 8 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Mend, patch, take down a little here, prop up some tottering nuisance there, fill in gaping chinks with patent legislative cement, coat old facades with bright paint, hide decay beneath a gloze of novelty, titivate, decorate, furbish--and after all your house is not a new one, but a whited sepulchre shaking to decay.

They said that when he saw the shearers coming he’d say, “Run and titivate yourself, Mary; here comes the shearers!” But what surprised me was that Jack Barnes didn’t seem able to see through Thomas; he thought that he was all right, “a bit of a rough diamond.” There are any amount of scoundrels and swindlers knocking about the world disguised as rough diamonds.

She was both kind and civil to you, Ned.” “I don't know as to the kindness,” replied Edward; “but she was certainly civil and agreeable, and I don't think it's in her nature to be anything else.” “Except when she ought,” said his father; “but listen, Ned--dress yourself up, get a buff waistcoat, a green jockey coat, a riding whip, and a pair o' shinin' top-boots, titivate yourself up like a dandy, then go to her wid lavendher water on your pocket-handkerchy, an' you'll see how she'll settle you.

Darius had told him to `titivate himself,' a most startling injunction from Darius, and thus the new costly suit had been, as it were, officially blessed and henceforth could not be condemned.

Gravely and calmly he draws brushes and so on from a receptacle under the box-seat, and commences to titivate himself.