Make up and Sketch

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Make up verb - To be all the substance of.

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Sketch and make up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sketch" instead a verb "Make up".

Sketch verb - To draw or make apparent the outline of.

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Make up and sketch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Make up" instead a verb "Sketch".

Nearby Words: sketchy, sketched, sketching

Saturday Night Live had a Wild West sketch with Danny Devito where he played a stereotypical bandit doing this trope to a character played by Jon Lovitz, until the bandit accidentally hits the guy's foot, and spends the rest of the sketch summoning all his charm to make up for it.

Source: Bullet Dancing
The two jewel thieves in the "Uncooperative Burglars" sketch have more understated versions of the "blatant burglar" costume - flat cap, neckerchief, unlabelled Thief Bag, but no Domino Mask or striped jersey - but make up for this with more brazen defiance of the constable who tries to arrest them.

Source: Series / At Last The 1948 Show

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