purty
Americanadjective
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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
It has a mighty purty tune, by that old Quaker from Russia, Dimitri Tiomkin.
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
“Desertin’ ain’t a purty word to you, is it?
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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