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  • adjective superlative form of pretty: most pretty.

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Examples

  • "Now, that's what I call the prettiest view we've seen of that gunboat yet, Mr Burnett, sir," said the carpenter a short time later, as the lad strolled up to where he was leaning over the bulwarks shading his eyes from the sun.

    Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "That's what I calls the prettiest shot I ever see," said one of the men.

    Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Show him pictures of pretty girls, and the girl he calls prettiest will have dilated pupils.

    A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968

  • Show him pictures of pretty girls, and the girl he calls prettiest will have dilated pupils.

    A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968

  • Did I not ruin a pair of silk-velvet slippers, lame my ankles for a week, and draw a "browner horror" over my already sunburnt face, in a wearisome walk, miles away, to the head of the ditch, as they call the prettiest little rivulet

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • By the time she was seventeen, Lillie Malcolm became known as the prettiest and most accomplished young lady in the neighborhood, and no church or Sunday-school gathering was complete without a song or recitation by her.

    The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer

  • Oscar Levant was an unlikely beau for the girl who was currently being described as the prettiest in Hollywood.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • For me the hardest letter to identify was the "e" and the prettiest was the "w".

    Can you read it? C N Heidelberg 2009

  • "Come on!" called the prettiest of the three, through her hollowed hands.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her loveliness.

    East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

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