purty
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Being the reason a marriage ends might look purty in a novel, but in real life it means you took someone else’s candy just because you wanted it.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2023
“How d’ya know I ain’t jus another purty face out shoppin’ fer my family?” she asks the officer who has come to arrest her.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2015
People can stand purty near anything when they have to," and his own apt reply: "They certainly can.
From Time Magazine Archive
Giggling, nudging, shrilling with excitement, the inmates in their brown-&-white-checked house dresses crowded round the small, serious artist with cries of "Ain't it purty!"
From Time Magazine Archive
She smile when she saw the table looking bright and purty.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
