cutesy
adjective
forcedly and consciously cute; coyly mannered.
cutesie
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a variation of
cutesy.
Example Sentences
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Up until about a year ago I would heartily roll my eyes and snigger whenever a cutesie photo of my husband’s sister’s boss’s baby would pop up on my Facebook feed.
From Time ● Sep. 27, 2014
Patricia Henderson Newark Whoever wrote the article on Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper is suffering from a terminal case of cutesie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Petite and canny, Klein rose to prominence by injecting a new elegance into the traditionally cutesie junior-size dresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a meeting with top aides in Tupelo, Miss., following the fiasco, Mondale demanded that they stop arranging "cutesie" photo opportunities and schedule only "substantive forums" at which he could talk issues to live audiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
