cutesy
adjective
forcedly and consciously cute; coyly mannered.
cutesiness
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a word derived from
cutesy.
Example Sentences
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This week’s winner in excessive cutesiness in an answer goes to a longtime heavyweight in the genre, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2024
And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Showing people struggling with everyday technology has become an inane documentary motif, and Gelernt’s apparently chronic difficulties with keeping his cellphone charged add more cutesiness than texture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
I noted the odd capitalization, as well as how disagreeable cutesiness is when one is hangry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
The cutesiness epidemic rages on, but Poehler and Offerman aren’t faking it — there really is something beautiful and heartbreaking in the things we create on our own time.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2018
