Quaintly attractive

Usage examples of cute.

Edgar, came jostling after to share her knee with her scripts and suckle at her bosom while she learned her lines, yet she was always word-perfect even when she played two parts in the one night, Ophelia or Juliet and then, say, Little Pickle, the cute kid in the afterpiece, for the audiences of those days refused to leave the theatre after a tragedy unless the players changed costumes and came back to give them a little something extra to cheer them up again.

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

I go to your apartment, Alan, and what do I see there but a cute brown-haired girl wearing jeans.

With a cute guy I picked up at Amour Magique, a good -- no, great -- dancer.

She looked very cute, Bingo thought, in that little black dress with the white lace collar and the big black hat.

E passava e ripassava la mano sul liscio mento dove fra le macchie di cui avevanlo chiazzato la lussuria e la depravazione, si scorgeva la pallida e giallognola cute del camaleonte.

Okay, I said he was cute, but he was in no position to say he dated a lot of anything, never mind with the word gorgeous in it.

Deutch spotted that doubloon he was cute enough to guess what it might lead to, but your father was too clever for him.

She gives Sam the Gonoph an extra big smile, and right away Sam is saying she is very cute, indeed, and then she gives old Liverlips an even bigger smile, and what is more she takes old Liverlips by the arm and walks with him, and old Liverlips is not only very much astonished, but very much pleased.

Nick De Profundis, the company lounge lizard, has surprised everybody by changing, inside the phone booth of factory spaces here, to an energetic businessman, selling A4 souvenirs: small items that can be worked into keychains, money clips or a scatter-pin for that special gal back home, burner cups of brass off the combustion chambers, ball bearings from the servos, and this week the hep item seems to be SA 100 acorn diodes, cute little mixing valves looted out of the Tele-funken units, and the even rarer SA 102s, which of course fetch a higher price.

The traitor most likely intended to deceive me, but as I was myself determined to deceive him it remained to be seen which was the a cuter.

GRob is a hottie, maybe not as cute as Laura Witherspoon, but a woman who can kick ass is a definite turn-on.

They lay against the pillows of the four-poster bed, cute as a pair of Kewpie dolls.

When the view is reversed, and a couture girl bothers to glance toward her, Mirabelle looks like a puppy standing on its hind legs, and the two brown dots of her eyes, set in the china plate of her face, make her seem very cute and noticeable.

Although the myna was cute and appealing, its basically reptilian view of the world was most likely cold, strange, and utterly alien.