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  • adjective Somewhat pretty.

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  • adjective Somewhat pretty

Etymologies

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pretty +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Re the picture, that prettyish grove looks like a dangerous man-eating hunk of vegetation to me, though beautifully rendered.

    Illustration Friday: Wilderness 2010

  • She can't be played by any of those prettyish girls.

    Jennifer Ehle cast as Catelyn 2009

  • Miss Austen, there's a prettyish sort of wilderness over there.

    Thoughts on a Film I Have No Intention of Seeing Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • They say “prettyish songs about ecstasy” and we say “when and how much”?

    LISTEN UP: My Other Cow is a Ferrari | Best Week Ever 2007

  • The Lederlung was a prettyish little creature certainly, and her voice (what there was of it) was very sweet, and there is no doubt that the Strumpff was not in her first youth and beauty, and certainly too stout; when she came on in the last scene of the

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • There are two apartments there, so it was either The Gnome (an odd but sweet little woman who barely talks) or a prettyish woman I've only seen a couple times.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2005

  • Cycled in a bit on autopilot this morning but then just about when I was getting near work started really realizing how nice a day it was, how pleasant it is to be living and working in such a smallish greenish prettyish town city.

    Lovely sunny sunshine accommodatingly 2004

  • And as she spoke, a frank-eyed, gentle, prettyish lady, not so tall as I, but with a very kind face, rose up from a book of prints, and, smiling, took our hands.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • He rang the bell, and a fresh-coloured, prettyish girl in a smart cap came to the door.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • My attention was early engaged by a lady of prettyish appearance at a table near by, whose bonnet and spencer bespoke

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

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