purty

[ pur-tee ]

adjectiveDialect.
  1. pretty.

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How to use purty in a sentence

  • New milker with a calf still beside her—purty as a picture, the pair of 'em, and dirt cheap.

    Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond
  • The way ye was shootin' along, it looked as though ye'd git to where ye was goin' purty nigh before ye started.

    Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. Matthews
  • Bill Talpers'd go where he could wear good clothes every day, and his purty wife'd hold up her head with the best of them!

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
  • Alice has a leetle money, not that much maybe, en she's purty tight, yit hit might be done.

    David Lannarck, Midget | George S. Harney
  • I'd cut a purty figure with the Yankees if they know'd that some of my men had muskets that were used in the Revolutionary War.

    A Little Union Scout | Joel Chandler Harris