What's the difference between pettily and prettily?
Pettily
Definition:
(adv.) In a petty manner; frivolously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nicky Morgan cut from meeting with PM after leathering £995 trousers Read more Anyway, May’s joint chief of staff, Fiona Hill, was so outraged by Morgan’s fashion critique that she pettily disinvited “that woman” from 10 Downing Street, “so there!” The leather worm then turned further for Morgan when it was pointed out that her Mulberry handbag cost almost exactly the same as May’s trousers.
Prettily
Definition:
(adv.) In a pretty manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nonetheless some caution in the game plan would be understandable and for the first 45 minutes DC executed a countering strategy effectively, if not always prettily.
(2) The content of cholesterol of patients with cancer is prettily constant and deviated only little from the normal.
(3) And that's his Cabinet of Curiosities all over: posh and polished and prettily poignant.
(4) Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening beyond my remit now that I am self-banished.
(5) The mayor has established a zoo on the prettily gardened seafront.
(6) The women around her, the chorus, all prettily dressed, are the convention.
(7) 8.10pm BST Kimberley has been juggling her psychologist duties with coursework essays and laughing prettily by the river with her boyfriend.
(8) When Perry mounted a coming out ceremony for Claire in 2000 in a London gallery, he decorated his girly silk brocade frock with the teddy alongside penises tied prettily with green ribbons.
(9) Obama's remarks were so prettily made that one almost hesitates to point out that we didn't actually do those things.
(10) USA buzzing around handily, if not yet prettily, early on.
(11) Quintamar, near Tavira, eastern Algarve Swimming pond at Quintamar There's nothing fancy about this little self-catering complex, which sits prettily within the Ria Formosa nature reserve at the quieter end of the Algarve.
(12) Parminter hides the complexity of the reciprocal relationship between advertising agencies and the markets they both reflect and create, in a glib formulation that is packaged up so prettily, we're meant to swallow it down whole.