pretty

• Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of...
• Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week - 1917, Michigan Film Review, page 347:
• The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and...

Synonyms: dainty

Coordinate Terms: handsome

• Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier. - 2007 October 25, Kelefa Sanneh, “Songs With a Sneaky Streak”, in The New York Times:
• 'Petit Posy' brassicas […] are a cross between kale and brussels sprouts, and are really very pretty with a mild, sweet taste. - 2010 February 13, Lia Leendertz, The Guardian:

• Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories as "faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste." - 1962 September 28, “New Life for the...

• In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […]. - 1877, George Hesekiel, Bayard Taylor, Bismarck his Authentic Biography, page...

• they flung all the goods in the house out at the windows into the street, or into the sea, as they supposed; thus they continued mad a pretty season […]. - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy...
• "What did you do to your hair?" The answer could be worth a pretty penny for L'Oreal. - 2004 January 26, “Because They're Worth it”, in Time:

• Some people are surprised, I believe, that that the eldest was not [named after his father], but Isabella would have him named Henry, which I thought very pretty of her. - 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane...
• ‘This new fashion of introducing the candidate's children into an election contest is a pretty one,’ said Mrs. Panstreppon; ‘it takes away something from the acerbity of party warfare, and it makes an interesting...
• "Oh, Jake." Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. "Yes", I...

• "Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you." -...
• [A] pretty thing it would be, if a man of business had to examine every cab-horse before he hired it—[…] - [1877], Anna Sewell, “”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part IV, page 235:
• ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marjorie Lindon, to even think such nonsense. Are you all nerves and morbid imaginings,—you who have prided yourself on being so strong-minded! A pretty sort you are to do battle...

• They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […] - 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, “Of Java Major”, in Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and...
• By the Sheets you have sent me to peruse, the Account you have given of her Birth and Parentage is pretty exact [...]. - 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:
• Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that Arcas an Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes with the brazen ſtatue, the other that he caſt a mare. - 1741, [Pierre] Bayle, “A...

• 'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?' - 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 139:

• I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! - 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz:

• We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.

• He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat. - 2007, Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home, →ISBN, page 29: