Marked-up in a sentence as an adjective

The author then gets a copy of the marked-up MS to check.

Code isn't supposed to be "pretty" in the sense as a word document or marked-up Latex file.

"Herf derf just have your dev scrape the thing" is cool and all, but if the document is not marked-up in a friendly way, that information can be very brittle.

The added kick in the nuts which isn't even mentioned is that if the project starts to come close to the level of profit where the artists would get payment - all the studio/label has to do is spend more money on additional, marked-up promotion and the project goes deeper into "debt.

Marked-up definitions

adjective

(of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

See also: dirty foul