kittenishness

The effusiveness was irritating, and the overacted kittenishness of the girl made her sick at heart, although she betrayed no sign of her feeling.

The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

He was fairly mild and merciful with me (thanks to Rodney, I daresay) but unbudgably firm, and at every rehearsal some touch of coyness or kittenishness is added.

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

Coldly studied, Leo's restlessness is much less lovable than the kittenishness which comes from a rich and fresh vitality.

Getting Married George Bernard Shaw 1903

But it is Oscar's keen sense of impending death, not his occasional kittenishness, that has made the mixed-breed cat legend.

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But there is one dancer who I think relies a bit too much on her sex kittenishness a bit too much.

Ramblings on Romance Etcetera, Etcetera 2008

a man who weighs close onto 150 pounds, though he is as kitteny as anybody when occasion calls for kittenishness.

Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878