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UK
/pɹˈɪtinəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)
How To Use prettiness In A Sentence
- Ain't nothin 'gonna change that prettiness, but ain't nobody ever gonna convince her that maybe she's a babe. The Day Bari And I Finally Met
- She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness.
- There were others, of course, louder and more bouncingly helpful, but it was Jo's cool face, tidy brushed-back hair, thin body, and speechless grace which provided the secretive prettiness I needed. Cider With Rosie
- Their prettiness are in the selfish mind and in the untrained eyes behind the blinkers of this blind beholder!
- His skin glowed like warm honey in the noon sun — smooth, his face with its trace of epicanthic folds and full lips saved from prettiness by a small, jagged scar on one cheek. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Jaydium: Revising a False Start
- A deer being chased by a wild dog, hurtling across some large featureless plain beneath a sky the deep blue-black of ink, interspersing its run with elegant bounds, that delicate prettiness even in its death-flight.
- Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
- The only pretty girl whose prettiness appealed to Rowcliffe had an "adenoid" mouth which he held to be a drawback. The Three Sisters
- [551] A pleasant study, in poetic use of imagery and phrase, is the gradation from the bare and grand Lucretian simplicity of _silentia noctis_, through the "favour and prettiness" (slightly tautological though) of the Virgilian _tacitae per amica silentia lunae_, to the recovery and intensifying of magnificence in _dove il sol tace_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
- People commented on the prettiness of the cottage.