kittenish

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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

Discuss some general things with him when he gets kittenish.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger