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beautiful, cute, charming, pleasant, elegant, good-looking, neat, graceful, lovely, handsome, appealing, boss, cheerful, comely, dainty, darling, delicate, delightful, eyeful, fairExamples from the Web for prettier
Contemporary Examples of prettier
It helped me look in the mirror and feel younger and prettier.
After all, why would you want to read in a longer and prettier form something that's already been published?
The whole thing is a substantive sop to the GOP right wing wrapped in a prettier package.
“[The] overwhelming pressure to be thinner, prettier, and sexier begins subtly,” she says on her website.
The shorter your skirt was and the prettier you were, the more they wanted you in front of the client.
Historical Examples of prettier
But thou art a pretty lad, and the prettier for thy modest ways.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Cairnduff had told him that Belfast girls were prettier than London girls.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
She had grown since I saw her last, and was prettier than ever.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
Not a prettier shoe could be seen on the Boulevards, and scarce one so small.
She was pretty when a baby and prettier still as a schoolgirl.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln