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 • 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

Stevenson, indeed, is commonly dismissed as a pretty-pretty writer, a word-taster without intellect or passion, a juggler rather than an artist.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

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 Bell, Lilian