kittenish

Example Sentences

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Seductively kittenish, Gardner lives up to her profane reputation.

From Los Angeles Times

You could not call her kittenish: she was nobody’s pet, nobody’s plaything.

From Los Angeles Times

Her hair is bobbed and her hands and lower arms gloved; on her feet are kittenish, pointy, low-stilettoed black pumps.

From Salon

All together, the vision of femininity soft girls evoke can be seen as dispiritingly retrograde – a kittenish broadcast of reductive tropes from a generation older feminists probably hoped would grow up more enlightened.

From The Guardian

She appears to have happily adapted to life at Veles, bounding through the snow in her outdoor enclosure and rolling on her back kittenishly.

From Fox News