cherub
noun
(in the Bible) a celestial being.
Example Sentences
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Woo-sung, cherubically untroubled, is a symbol of the love, connection and fulfillment that money can’t buy and that is therefore commodified by a society determined to make money the measure of everything.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
And only Waters would manipulate publicity photos of former child movie stars by placing lit cigarettes between the tots’ cherubically bowed lips.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
This cherubically grinning ghost first popped up in a Paramount cartoon that ran from 1945 to 1963.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2014
Unlike Chandrasekhar, whom he regards as his idol, the Pittsburgh-born Fowler is cherubically gregarious, almost as devoted to his beloved Pirates and old locomotives as to physics.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I came softly back five minutes later, he lay in deep slumber, his face cherubically innocent, his breathing soft as a babe's.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
