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PRETTILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a pretty manner
Example:
all this is most prettily done
Classified under:
Pertainym:
pretty (pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing)
Context examples:
She flushed quickly and prettily.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must have been chilled with cold, and her mind somewhat appalled at waking unclad in a churchyard at night, she did not lose her grace.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was a prettily shaped room, the windows reaching to the ground, and the view from them pleasant, though only over green meadows; and she expressed her admiration at the moment with all the honest simplicity with which she felt it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Prettily said, mon garcon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nobody could have written so prettily, but you, Emma.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
That sentence is very prettily turned.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She wasn't there, but Minnie, who is a little old woman, introduced me very prettily.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“How prettily that little thing turns round!” said the princess, and took the spindle and began to try and spin.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"There is no such word as 'ain't,'" she said, prettily emphatic.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
