kittenish

Example Sentences

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Otherwise, Anderson holds her own, cooing her one-liners with the kittenish candor of Marilyn Monroe.

From Los Angeles Times

Seductively kittenish, Gardner lives up to her profane reputation.

From Los Angeles Times

You could not call her kittenish: she was nobody’s pet, nobody’s plaything.

From Los Angeles Times

Her hair is bobbed and her hands and lower arms gloved; on her feet are kittenish, pointy, low-stilettoed black pumps.

From Salon

All together, the vision of femininity soft girls evoke can be seen as dispiritingly retrograde – a kittenish broadcast of reductive tropes from a generation older feminists probably hoped would grow up more enlightened.

From The Guardian