What's the difference between cute and likeable?

Cute


Definition:

  • (a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (2) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (3) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
  • (4) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (5) When he smiles, he looks as cute and gummy as a newborn.
  • (6) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
  • (7) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
  • (8) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
  • (9) Does appreciation for cuteness come naturally, or does it reveal something about our society?
  • (10) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
  • (11) Laurinda runs Casa do Norte (from £30 a night) – a cute, romantic cottage to kick back in – and manages a handful of other turismos rurales.
  • (12) Lorenz’s paper is the blueprint of cute studies, but it did not produce a positive reaction among the scientific community.
  • (13) Despite their cute appearance, the animals have been known to bite the fingers off of tourists who have gone into the cages .
  • (14) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
  • (15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (16) The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
  • (17) People genuinely like them because they're funny, interesting, cute or just generally interesting.
  • (18) We're in a time where it is cute to be provocative and alternative and distinct.
  • (19) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (20) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .

Likeable


Definition:

  • (a.) See Likable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
  • (2) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
  • (3) Denis Napthine, a former country vet, is like your favourite uncle – a bit of a dag but highly likeable.
  • (4) Sex differences in the perception of touching were investigated by having 25 male and 25 female college students rate how likeable a touch would be under different conditions.
  • (5) And trust and likeability come from being honest, not always from being nice.
  • (6) And that is not easy.” Clinton faced questions about her “likeability” during her failed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
  • (7) , G2, 21 March), a likeable person with whom I once shared a public platform.
  • (8) No wonder David Cameron wanted to have at his side the man who so successfully enhances his likeability .
  • (9) You might dislike the prime minister's policies – and that's fine – but he and the chancellor are two very likeable and good men, as well as politicians that care deeply about others, and their colleagues know it.
  • (10) "It's all past history as far as the group is concerned," comforts their instantly likeable manager Joe Moss as we wait in a west London recording studio for the Smiths' imminent return from a Thameside photo session.
  • (11) But the need for likeable heroes may instead ensure that the Bushes and Obamas will take the blame – leaving Ronald Reagan up there with George Washington, founding hero of the republic, and with Abraham Lincoln, its saviour.
  • (12) Female characters in books, movies and on TV are meant to be likeable and, as nymag.com points out this week, if they're not, the problem is usually explained away as a medical problem (such as Homeland's Carrie being bipolar.)
  • (13) Three homogeneous and stable factors emerged from a factor analyss: Aggression, Withdrawal and Likeability.
  • (14) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
  • (15) I liked it.” In private Defour is likeable, though he can find privacy difficult.
  • (16) But they also may be tackling broader concerns about the party’s likeability, after the party spent most of this week on the wrong side of public opinion over issues such as the non-domicile tax status .
  • (17) But while the radical increase of women in the workforce has shifted views, we're still not living in a society that sees women and men as equally competent, likeable and authoritative.
  • (18) As we know, this manifesto for women in the boardroom tells us that the correlation between women being judged 'likeable' and their position in a hierarchy are inversely proportionate.
  • (19) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (20) I am not so very old, but I'm old enough to have noticed that the times in my life when I was most admired by men, the times when I was considered most likeable, were also the times when I was most vulnerable, most powerless and unsure of myself.

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