as in nicely
in a pleasing way
a white wine that balances its prettily fruity flavors with refreshing acidity
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Recent Examples of prettily
At Nama, the smaller, poolside Japanese restaurant, every dish is prettily plated but a little short on authenticity.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
The culture of the time is conveyed prettily but broadly, through wonderfully detailed sets (by production designer Christina Moore) and costumes (by costume designer Gabriela Yiaxis) and occasional montages of soldiers or stockbrokers or punk rockers.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
The culture of the time is conveyed prettily but broadly, through wonderfully detailed sets (by production designer Christina Moore) and costumes (by costume designer Gabriela Yiaxis) and occasional montages of soldiers or stockbrokers or punk rockers.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prettily
Adverb
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The alternately suspenseful and silly scene nicely sets up the tone for this new season, which is infused with references to classic Westerns as much as screwball comedies.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Each medicine is individually packaged, and the whole kit is small enough to fit nicely in your purse or backpack.—
Chantelle Kincy,
Travel + Leisure,
30 May 2026
Adverb
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Today, as conversations around climate change, biodiversity, and food sustainability grow increasingly urgent, Providence stands as proof that culinary excellence and environmental responsibility can coexist beautifully and deliciously.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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The Events Hall at Ian’s chapel once was part of the underground railroad system and belonged to an Amish community in Ohio; the history runs deliciously deep and diverse here.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
Adverb
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Look closer, and the business side is in focus for the Koreans as well.—
Justina Lee,Lisa Kim,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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The Rattlesnake Bar is well known with the locals as a buzzy place to enjoy Dean's Margarita and some Two-Bite Lobster Tacos while listening to live music in a relaxed yet refined environment.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 June 2026
Adverb
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Well, Lila's off doing great now.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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These same resentments likely erupted in the murder of Clapham and in the solidarity a great many local people felt with the Panis woman.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
Adverb
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The service Warm, personal, yet delightfully unfussed.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The attached cocktail lounge keeps the brandy Old-Fashioneds flowing long after breakfast ends and even features an 18-foot shuffleboard table that feels delightfully stuck in another era.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
31 May 2026
Adverb
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For management teams charged with clearing a path through uncertainty and volatility, there are few resources as flexible and finely tuned.—
Serguei Netessine,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Transfer spices to a mortar and pestle and crush until finely ground.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 May 2026
Adverb
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To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this month.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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There’s one enjoyably oddball visual when Passenger Man disrupts a cozy projector-and-canopy movie night in the forest and suddenly the faces of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn are on trees everywhere as mayhem ensues.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Adverb
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Her son Aire was pictured wearing a gray hooded tracksuit top and sweetly smiled for a selfie with his mom while sitting on her lap inside the plane.—
Gina Kalsi,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Sugar is sweetly naive, but never dumb; her falling for the act can be taken as a sign of her big-heartedness, her willingness to suspend suspicion in favor of extending the benefit of the doubt.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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“Prettily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prettily. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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