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Webster 1913 Edition
Prettily
Pret′ti-ly
,adv.
In a pretty manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prettily
PRETTILY
,adv.
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)
- 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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Translations
in a pretty manner
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