cuddlesome

When Walt Disney made a motion picture of Bambi, his artists based their images on the Great North Woods of Maine, but this was palpably not a Disney forest of roomy glades and cuddlesome creatures.

How, for instance, did the studio turn a furry, animated monster into a life-like horned beast, all while maintaining a bit of cuddlesome princely charm?

Dear Frankie, I was utterly delighted to get your cuddlesome letter.

Even after he warms up and becomes an enthusiastic dad who defers to his son, he is more shark than cuddlesome papa bear.

And who was this shy and awkward maypole, who had taken the place of dear, cuddlesome, wee Pam?