pretty-pretty

British  

adjective

1. informal excessively or ostentatiously pretty

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Example Sentences

If you remember “Oliver!” as being cheery to a fault, you’re not far wrong: Mr. Bart’s galloping music-hall ditties and pretty-pretty ballads rarely do much more than nod toward the darkness of Dickens’s novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 2, 2018

Mr. Hitchcock referred to him as “a pretty-pretty boy” and complained that his casting “destroyed the whole point of the film.”

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2015

For the most part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, he was infatuated with various little pretty-pretty masters, and the harpsichord music which used to charm the Roi-Perruque: and he regarded La Confession d'une Femme de Chambre as a Christian book….

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert

The "pretty-pretty" school, which has been too popular, especially in anthologies of mildly entertaining rhymes, is sickly at its best, and fails to retain the interest of a child.

From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by White, Gleeson