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kittenish

adjective as in frisky, playful

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Example Sentences

Friends speak of a steely and determined operator beneath the kittenish veneer.

Still, the way Zemeckis talks about Staar is in a coy, kittenish way that does not entirely suggest unparallel lives.

And they finished with a gentle pat on his cheek and a momentary, kittenish rumpling of his hair.

A little kitten came up out of the garden and said something kittenish to me, and then I heard a muffled step within.

She tossed her head with a kittenish movement, and arched her poorly pencilled eyebrows.

While this kittenish comedy was going on something younger and more tragical was in progress in the two adjacent houses.

This object is not to be accomplished by adopting juvenile dress and kittenish ways.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kittenish, such as: childish, coquettish, coy, elvish, flirtatious, and frolicsome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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