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Coyly cloying
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cutesy
Alternative clues for the word cutesy
Word definitions for cutesy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"artificially or annoyingly cute," by 1968, from cute (adj.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken as serious.
Usage examples of cutesy.
John Vanderson was not and never would be a Kappa, and his wife was hardly the kind to need cutesy notes to remind her of anything whatsoever I doubted alumnae paid dues, although they were likely to be dunned by National on a regular basis right up until the opening strains of the funerary procession.
Mary Morris had wiped hers on a pinny covered with cutesy cartoon Shetland ponies.
Cornyness goes down particularly well, cutesy talk and schmaltzy sentimentality rate highly too.
There were shopping malls and fast-food places and stores that sold cutesy crap.
The waitresses wore mob caps instead of pointy hats, and only a few of the entrees had cutesy names.
For years he had existed meagerly on cutesy plots featuring baby animals and itsy-bitsy toddlers, using carefully researched language structures appropriate for his target market.