pretty-pretty

British  

adjective

1. informal excessively or ostentatiously pretty

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Example Sentences

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

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

Gilbert would soon rout this paltry little tuppenny-ha'penny Society novelist with his pretty-pretty chatter and his pretty-pretty blue eyes and his air of being a knowing dog.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

"I want you to make one of your pretty-pretty pictures of some church plans I'm making."

From Project Gutenberg