pretty
adjective
pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness.
prettyish
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a word derived from
pretty.
Example Sentences
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As Anne Skepper, before her marriage, she was much admired by Carlyle; “a brisk witty prettyish clear eyed sharp tongued young lady”; and was the intimate, among many, especially of Thackeray and Browning.
From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William
He rang the bell, and a fresh-coloured, prettyish girl in a smart cap came to the door.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of your lawn.
From Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
They hated those forms of execution which are merely smooth and prettyish, and those which, pretending to mastery, are nothing better than slovenly and slapdash, or what the P.R.B.'s called “sloshy.”
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Originally a prettyish, plump-bodied brunette, she was at present what she herself termed "black-and-tan": in the middle of the process of "letting her hair go back."
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
