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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cutesy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the cottages had cutesy names like "Sea Shanty" painted above their doors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But one look at the wall of guitars on this bunch of cutesy college kids and memories of Chapterhouse flood back instinctively.
▪ She knew her animal, all at once, no question: not cutesy, not brave, not magnificent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cutesy

"artificially or annoyingly cute," by 1968, from cute (adj.).

Wiktionary
cutesy

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.