elfin

Example Sentences

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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

"Chalamet is elfin and puckish, unworldly and possessed of a Paddingtonian innocence and charm - and a nice singing voice - without being insufferable," he wrote.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

And in the “Five Pieces” section, Ashley Hod, eerie and elfin, and Gilbert Bolden III gave angular depth to the acrobatic partnering.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Jordan was elfin to look at and Southern to hear, “limitations” that proved assets.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022

“I have come to deliver a precious treasure to your dark master. I will give it only to him. Anything else would be beneath the dignity of the elfin nation.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin