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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pretty boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy or young man who is attractive or has delicate features.
Example: "He walked into the room with confidence, a pretty boy with a charming smile that caught everyone's attention."
Alternatives: "an attractive young man" or "a handsome lad".
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"Not a pretty boy.
Not even Bazdarevic who, by his own admission, was "a pretty boy" with long curly hair.
He was dismissed as a pretty boy, city boy, metrosexual show-off.
I quoted a line from Raging Bull: "He ain't a pretty boy no more".
In the 1980s he was a pretty boy pin-up, permatanned and highlighted.
(Nothing to do with Ms Drabble; more, as I recollect, with a pretty boy named Bob).
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"Conceited, a pretty-boy empty suit.
Twenty years ago, John Taylor was the prettiest of a pretty-boy band.
Here was a pretty-boy rugby league convert, albeit a brilliant one, who did not even know all the rules.
Because I had blond hair, the record company saw me as a pretty-boy, punk-pop crossover act.
This is not a pretty-boy crowd; it is middle-aged, leathery, wise in the ways of a Brooklyn separate from the preciousness of Park Slope.
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