
Noah Webster
Prettily
PRETTILY, adverb 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