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Pretty

adverb

To a moderately sufficient extent or degree. Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat. "Pretty bad" , "Jolly decent of him" , "The shoes are priced reasonably" , "He is fairly clever with computers"

adjective

(compar. prettier; superl. prettiest)

Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing. "Pretty song" , "Pretty room"

(used ironically) unexpectedly bad. "A pretty kettle of fish"

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"Pretty" Quotes from Famous Books

... a long, sloping arch, near the sailors' Chapel of St. Antonino, past a pretty shrine of the Virgin, down the zigzag path to this little marina; but it is better to be content with looking at it from above, and imagining how delightful it would be to push off in one of the little tubs of boats. Sometimes, at night, I hear the fishermen coming home, singing in their ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... (which has never been at all the same thing), but on the whole he was supremely the representative sovereign. In this connection one curious and difficult question may be considered here, though it marks the end of a story that began with the Norman Conquest. It is pretty certain that he was never more truly a representative king, one might say a republican king, than in the fact that he expelled the Jews. The problem is so much misunderstood and mixed with notions of a stupid spite against a gifted and historic race ...

— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton

... tell you A pretty tale; it may be, you have heard it; But, since it serves my purpose, I ...

— A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' • Robert Carmichael-Smyth

... wedding-day till the lady died in her sixty-fourth year. On her monument he placed an inscription extolling the charms of her person and of her manners; and when, long after her decease, he had occasion to mention her, he exclaimed, with a tenderness half ludicrous, half pathetic, "Pretty creature!" ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... A pretty autograph, indeed! The snow fell steadily and I tramped on over the joint signature of the girl and the rabbit. Near the lake they parted company, the rabbit leading off at a tangent, on a line parallel with the lake, while his pursuer’s ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

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