prettiness

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Recent Examples of prettiness 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 And if prettiness isn’t your overwhelmingly defining feature, people will use other complimentary adjectives to encourage you: smart, clever, fastidious, well-behaved, talented, funny, etc. Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for prettiness
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beauty
Noun
  • Hosted by luxury natural hair brand Camille Rose (Black owned, by the way) and sponsored by Wells Fargo, the festival has become a go-to celebration of Black beauty, creativity and community.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 20 June 2025
  • Formally brilliant, the pieces have been in love with beauty and have cautiously flirted with representation.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 20 June 2025

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“Prettiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prettiness. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.

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