Is he right, that fascism is simply dressed-up socialism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incredibly stupid conservative quote of the week « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

Half his fiction is little more than dressed-up reportage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference

Business travelers and a handful of dressed-up bar-hoppers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Dreams] Reference

A dressed-up Sophy would have made it look more like a date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

Those two Vinck girls are no better than dressed-up monkeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almayer's Folly] Reference

Freddie had new suits, so they were quite dressed-up, they felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City] Reference

We all know that this is a lie, greed dressed-up in eco clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road to Perdition] Reference

In the tram were dressed-up women, fashionable, but business-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight in Italy] Reference

Parents show off their children, carefully groomed and dressed-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cozumel - Island Of Many Faces] Reference

Some prestige brands aren't impressed by the dressed-up drugstores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspirin, Q-Tips and a New You] Reference

Conservation must not be viewed as a dressed-up version of deprivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Flattau: The New Economy] Reference

Chanel Ths look from Chanel is a play on the dressed-up menswear trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menswear Suits the Ladies, Too] Reference

Just tell me what you mean to do with the dressed-up doll when you get her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

This dressed-up version uses whipped cream flavored with vanilla and sherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantains with Vanilla Cream: Postre de Plátanos con Vainilla] Reference

"Two of us dressed-up as school girls and I'm staring you straight in the eye".    From Wordnik.com.  [19th April '08] Reference

Trying to be all dressed-up in ‘junglish’ attire is bad enough but fantasy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [natinski Diary Entry] Reference

I will write a story all dressed-up in verbal bling; while I'm aiming for glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Jealous Writer..] Reference

"It was a total revelation among that very dressed-up crowd," says Isabel Eberstadt.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Night to Remember] Reference

If you meet a homely but dressed-up lady, pray for her lovely face, and beg a penny. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

"That dressed-up buzzard over there should of let you know I was having some trouble.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Petty Pewter Gods]

You sneer at them -- hold them up to ridicule -- while they are worth all the dressed-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

The populace followed at some distance, gazing with reverence on these dressed-up fools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Back on Happiness] Reference

You can have a fancy dress and be all dressed-up like the princess that you already are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Di and Me | Her Bad Mother] Reference

No word has been released on the production potential for such a dressed-up CTS variant. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 SEMA - Cadillac CTS Sport concept] Reference

This was back before airlines became buses of the sky and people actually dressed-up to fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [DISCOVER A NEW HIGH IN AIR TRAVEL…] Reference

The baccarat pit is the "fancy food section," a dressed-up, sunken area behind a velvet rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Down-to-Earth Architect] Reference

Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressed-up madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

Scroll through and let us know which has stolen your sartorial heart with its furry, little, dressed-up paws.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHOTOS: Cats Work It At Feline Fashion Show] Reference

And this peoples over there, they so cool, well dressed-up, not screaming, all talking in a one-to-one voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Complicated Shoeshine] Reference

Some were dressed-up (Emmy Rossum, Gretchen Mol), some were dressed-down (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sarah Silverman).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darker Side Of Green Debate: Who Was Best-Dressed? (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference

Thus harassed, I appealed to the stewardess -- a tall sour-looking woman, flat and thin as a dressed-up broomstick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

Instead, suited-up beekeepers spit rhymes about the honey bee plight and dressed-up bees perform an invented dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Freeman: Where My Bees At? Five Brothers Rap and Dance To Save The Honey Bees] Reference

He is a more dressed-up version of Louis (whom I have been having lunch with occasionally in the courthouse commissary).    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilty Feelings] Reference

The phrase "lipstick on a pig" is one widely used in politics to denigrate a new proposal as simply a dressed-up version of an old idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2008] Reference