fetching

On our recent vacation trip to Portugal, I spotted a woman in a fetching dress I thought my lovely wife might like.
Quirky coincidences enliven vacation travel|John Kelly|August 3, 2022|Washington Post
In this world, once-proud physicians are over-prescribing and over-ordering, grinning and pretending, stepping and fetching.
You Can't Yelp Your Doctor|Daniela Drake|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He changed his name to Ronnie Rocket, becomes a bona fide rock star, and attracts a fetching tap-dancer, Electra-Cute.
Doomed Passion Projects of Hollywood: The Lost Classics of Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and More|Marlow Stern|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was surrounded by friends and family, and women—one was fetching him a piece of cake.
The Stacks: The True Greatness of Muhammad Ali|Peter Richmond|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Fetching, gracious, ladylike, she has devoted her adult life to taking care of Mitt and the boys.
When Good Wives Attack: Ann Romney’s Tricky Defense of Mitt|Michelle Cottle|September 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Fetching French actress Audrey Tautou is back in the romantic drama “Delicacy.”
Audrey Tautou on ‘Amélie,’ Her New Film ‘Delicacy,’ & More|Marlow Stern|March 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Anyway there was a lot of embroidery on it, full of little holes, which somehow contrived to be extraordinarily fetching.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
The fancy costumes and the funny masks the girls and boys wore certainly were “fetching.”
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
Ever see anything more fetching than those great Irish eyes in a regular little Dago mug?
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Fetching pen and paper, the blacksmith made a rapid computation of what would be due Oliver at any time within the next month.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
And there need never be any difficulty about sending you all three to school and fetching you, even when it is not holiday time.
Robin Redbreast|Mary Louisa Molesworth

British Dictionary definitions for fetching

fetching

/ (ˈfɛtʃɪŋ) /

adjective informal

attractively befittinga fetching hat

charminga fetching personality

Derived forms of fetching

fetchingly, adverb

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