LekhoriLekhoriPleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
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 the most brilliant scenes.
Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
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."
Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
Prettily, in a pretty manner.
A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
Something that is pretty.
To make pretty; to beautify
He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.
A surname.
Alternative form of Preeti; A female given name from Sanskrit.
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, s...
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'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'
We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.