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kittenish

[kit-n-ish] / ˈkɪt n ɪʃ /


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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

When her husband went on a lecture tour of London, she followed, and Staggs’s greatest biographical coup may be the unearthed photo of kittenish young Zsa Zsa drawing the eye of both H.G.

From Washington Post Aug. 19, 2019

The old woman was almost kittenish around him.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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