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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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 Louis Joseph Vance
On another occasion I found at his house a young and prettyish crown prosecutor.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin
"They've got a prettyish girl, called Dalton; but as to her being rich, I think it very unlikely, seeing that her family are living in Germany in a state of the very closest poverty."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
At the table Milford was presented to Miss Katherine Dolihide, slim, cold and prettyish.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
