kittenishness

Example Sentences

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She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, and an evil genius besides, reduced to mewing kittenishness in Cruise's presence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coldly studied, Leo's restlessness is much less lovable than the kittenishness which comes from a rich and fresh vitality.

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard

He is a man who weighs close onto 150 pounds, though he is as kitteny as anybody when occasion calls for kittenishness.

From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

William Dean Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous