elfin
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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
Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chef’s kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy “loch house” in the Scottish Highlands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
With her elfin features and skinhead look she was one of pop music's most recognisable figures.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2023
Short, by contrast, is an extrovert, elfin and impish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
The elfin scholar had picked up the half of his chicken pie that remained on the table and was eating it.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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