kittenish
adjective
coyly playful.
kittenishly
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a word derived from
kittenish.
Example Sentences
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She began by cavorting kittenishly with a rag doll, then movingly matured into a woman in the throes of first love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time the viewer claps his hands together.
From Time Magazine Archive
"His career is yours, you know," kittenishly bromidic, Emelene comforted her.
From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
She reminded us kittenishly that the guides were capricious, and that we must all help by merging ourselves in the great flowing currents of absolute infinity.
From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen
When in the name of 750,000 gods of reason will I ever learn enough to stay at home and go to bed instead of searching kittenishly for diversion in neighborhood movie and vaudeville houses?
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
