sex up

verb

informal.
tr, adverb to make (something) more interesting or exciting
the BBC decided to sex up the book's title

But director J.J. Abrams may have done the impossible: sex up the ultimate nerd franchise.

When smarting under the faithlessness of women, he dashed off a copy of verses, in which he held the whole sex up to scorn.

"You'll pursue the fair sex up to the very brink of the grave, Van Pycke," grumbled Knapp.

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