as in beauty
the qualities in a person or thing that as a whole give pleasure to the senses
the sugary prettiness of the knickknacks is sure to appeal to a certain type of collector
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Recent Examples of prettiness
He’s aided in basking in all this prettiness with the seductive cinematography from Daria D’Antonio and expert costuming from Carlo Poggioli.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
But the backdrops are rendered with an oppressive prettiness that has a perverse cheapening effect.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
But the backdrops are rendered with an oppressive prettiness that has a perverse cheapening effect.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Often, Eastwood uses the surroundings as a kind of misdirect, indicating through their prettiness that all is right with the world — as in a romantic montage featuring Eastwood and Mills that plays for far longer than its narrative function requires.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
But the backdrops are rendered with an oppressive prettiness that has a perverse cheapening effect.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
But the backdrops are rendered with an oppressive prettiness that has a perverse cheapening effect.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Often, Eastwood uses the surroundings as a kind of misdirect, indicating through their prettiness that all is right with the world — as in a romantic montage featuring Eastwood and Mills that plays for far longer than its narrative function requires.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prettiness
beauty
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With Hasan in Gaza is an aching witness to the beauty of this land and the struggle of its people, neither of which may soon be recognizable at all.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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The beauty there is that since peer support is a carve-out, perhaps their AI is no longer within scope.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Prettiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prettiness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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