pretty-pretty
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If you remember “Oliver!” as being cheery to a fault, you’re not far wrong: Mr. Bart’s galloping music-hall ditties and pretty-pretty ballads rarely do much more than nod toward the darkness of Dickens’s novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2018
Mr. Hitchcock referred to him as “a pretty-pretty boy” and complained that his casting “destroyed the whole point of the film.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
For the most part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Water-colour sketches by ’prentice hands, faded photographs, or pretty-pretty prints evidently torn from the pages of magazines.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
Stevenson, indeed, is commonly dismissed as a pretty-pretty writer, a word-taster without intellect or passion, a juggler rather than an artist.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
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