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Webster 1913 Edition


Prettily

Pret′ti-ly

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adv.
In a pretty manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prettily

PRETTILY

,
adv.
prit'tily. [from pretty.] In a pretty manner; with neatness and taste; pleasingly; without magnificence or splendor; as a woman prettily dressed; a parterre prettily ornamented with flowers.
1.
With decency, good manners and decorum without dignity.
Children kept out of ill company, take a price to behave themselves prettily.