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 the exception, not the rule," replied Maud, with decision.
From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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
