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Webster 1913 Edition


Prettily

Pret′ti-ly

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adv.
In a pretty manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prettily

PRETTILY

,
adv.
prit'tily. [from pretty.] In a pretty manner; with neatness and taste; pleasingly; without magnificence or splendor; as a woman prettily dressed; a parterre prettily ornamented with flowers.
1.
With decency, good manners and decorum without dignity.
Children kept out of ill company, take a price to behave themselves prettily.

Definition 2024


prettily

prettily

English

Adverb

prettily (comparative more prettily, superlative most prettily)

  1. In a pretty manner.
    • 1995 (date of the publication of the anthology), Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, ISBN 0434003484, page 316:
      the butterflies were flitting about prettily, and the whole of nature seemed to be conspiring to be as pleasant as it possibly could.

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