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

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 Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

Coldly studied, Leo's restlessness is much less lovable than the kittenishness which comes from a rich and fresh vitality.

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

William Dean Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)