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prettyism

noun

Etymology

From pretty + -ism.

  1. inherited from *prattugaz✻ — “boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”
  2. inherited from *prattug✻
  3. inherited from prættiġ — “tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”
  4. inherited from prety
  5. suffixed as prettyism — “pretty + ism”

Definitions

  1. The affectation of a pretty style or manner.

    • It is a fault , however , that the style is occasionally a little affected , and that a certain varnish of prettyism and pedantry is sometimes spread over conceptions of the most beautiful simplicity

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA