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[ adjective ] attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
Synonyms Examples "a cute kid with pigtails" "a cute little apartment" "cunning kittens" "a cunning baby" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] obviously contrived to charm
Synonyms Examples "an insufferably precious performance" "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" Used in print (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)The daughter replied , `` Oh , I had dinner with - well , you do n't know him but he 's awfully nice - and we went_to a_couple_of places - I do n't suppose you 've heard of them - and we finished_up at a cute little night_club - I forget the name of it . Related terms |
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