Definition of “made-up”

A made-up name cannot be used instead of the proper name of the food.

A tall young woman, profile sharp and even arrogant, made-up cheeks still pale, eyes a dark, disturbing blue, hair black.

Another equally unreal new genre we have discovered (well, sort of) is the made-up social malaise documentary.

Bild turned its entire back page into a front page filled with made-up news that would please the German leader, who turned 60 yesterday.

Capa was, according to one friend," a made-up person, mostly by himself".

On this window an artist wit had painted a nun with a made-up face.

She was in her long black coat and her beret and evidently had just repaired her make-up: made-up for him.

Tony Blair, it seems to me, is a pallid player; he never edges very close to honesty; he sticks to a made-up part.

When he first saw Jo made-up as Beth, Neil hardly recognised her.