kittenishness
Example Sentences
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She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, and an evil genius besides, reduced to mewing kittenishness in Cruise's presence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The effusiveness was irritating, and the overacted kittenishness of the girl made her sick at heart, although she betrayed no sign of her feeling.
From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball
He is a man who weighs close onto 150 pounds, though he is as kitteny as anybody when occasion calls for kittenishness.
From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
William Dean Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Coldly studied, Leo's restlessness is much less lovable than the kittenishness which comes from a rich and fresh vitality.
From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw