pretty-pretty
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If you remember “Oliver!” as being cheery to a fault, you’re not far wrong: Mr. Bart’s galloping music-hall ditties and pretty-pretty ballads rarely do much more than nod toward the darkness of Dickens’s novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2018
Mr. Hitchcock referred to him as “a pretty-pretty boy” and complained that his casting “destroyed the whole point of the film.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
For the most part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "pretty-pretty" school, which has been too popular, especially in anthologies of mildly entertaining rhymes, is sickly at its best, and fails to retain the interest of a child.
From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White
But give them strong, ugly names in preference to Ina and Bessie and Flossy and such pretty-pretty names, with no meaning and no character to them.
From The Love Affairs of an Old Maid by Lilian Bell
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