kittenish
Example Sentences
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On screen, Brigitte Bardot was a cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality, but it was an image she grew to loathe - eventually abandoning her career to campaign for animal welfare.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Her personality change is like that from the malevolent Gollum into kittenish Sméagol in The Lord of the Rings.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2023
You could not call her kittenish: she was nobody’s pet, nobody’s plaything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
Friedan — large, unkempt, kittenish as a Greyhound bus — was a one-woman repudiation of femininity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2016
Some of them even managed a cuddly, kittenish mew.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
