prettiness

Example Sentences

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Prettiness is next to godliness, which is why many of the players wear makeup during tournaments and treat their competitiveness as an imperfection that needs to be covered up with hugs and smiles.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015

"Prettiness has this connotation of passivity and innocuousness," she says.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.

From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry

Prettiness is by no means synonymous with expense these days, when the general patterns and colors of costly papers are successfully reproduced in the cheaper grades.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)