Thesaurus results for KITTENISH

kittenish

adjective

ˈkit-nish

Definition of kittenish

as in coquettish

affecting shyness or modesty in order to attract masculine interest she couldn't see the point in being kittenish about it and decided to just ask him out

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Recent Examples of kittenish Simply brushing them out of your eyes can feel like a coquettish, kittenish gesture! — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Feb. 2026 Seductively kittenish, Gardner lives up to her profane reputation. — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023 Madelyn Cline went full-on Old Hollywood bombshell, kittenish liner, polished lengths, and all. — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2023 To this day, she’s drawn to the bruise of blue that belies the kittenish blush, the tension between the girl next door and the demimondaine, who are not so far apart, who may even be one. — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021 See All Example Sentences for kittenish

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For the slightly more modest, there’s lace, crochet, and semisheer fabrics that play a coquettish reveal/conceal game à la the scrim in Unzipped.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
The hero, or antihero, of the story is Ichabod Crane, a rather ridiculous-looking schoolmaster who has set his cap for Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful, coquettish daughter of a wealthy Dutch farmer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of coquettish

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Both Coogler and Hulu are being coy about how this new series will fit into the continuity of the original show.

— Ian Stokes, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Those albums treated homecoming as a means of rebirth and reclamation; creole culture moves on the same wavelength but is more coy about the references.

— Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

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