What's the difference between cutesy and precious?

Cutesy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was time to branch out a little, and if it took Zooey Deschanel to push me off the cliff of cutesy little dresses and into the world of more adult dressing, well, question not the means but welcome the result.
  • (2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
  • (3) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
  • (4) So I carved the – sickeningly cutesy – pet name she'd given me.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Other late-night shows always seemed to find it harder to take on Trump at all – Jimmy Fallon took on a significant amount of criticism for having the candidate on The Tonight Show for a cutesy interview late in the campaign , while Saturday Night Live has been struggling to play catch-up since the ethical lapse of Trump’s bland hosting gig late last year.
  • (6) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.
  • (7) This combination of cutesy characteristics is impossible to resist.
  • (8) The current posture from Abbott and the Coalition is not all smoke and mirrors and cutesy politics.
  • (9) He knew the darker side and what it means to have demons,” Gilliam said, adding that Williams helped to turn the scenes from “cutesy” on the page to something much darker.
  • (10) The two most likely, however, are JJ Abrams's spy drama The Undercovers, a Hart to Hart for the 21st century starring Britain's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and the cutesy rom-com Love Bites, Working Title's first production for US television .
  • (11) Cutesy euphemisms are used, like wine o’clock and mummy petrol.
  • (12) At times it’s in danger of veering into annoyingly cutesy Kids Say the Funniest Things territory, but then the kids are often as funny as the adults.
  • (13) Cutesy graphics and a nagging chiptune soundtrack made this under-the-radar game one of the most appealing Android releases of 2014 so far: easy to play, but difficult to put down.
  • (14) When Poehler self-deprecates, she doesn’t do it in a charming, cutesy-wootsy way, but rather an honest way, and then counters it with some self-pride and self-awareness.
  • (15) But why can't someone write a female equivalent of, say, the mock-biopic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, so Anna Faris could expand on her scene-stealing Britney Spears impersonation from Just Good Friends with a potted send-up of half a century of girly music, instead of being stuck in cutesy fluff like The House Bunny?
  • (16) 5 Rose Cottage, Mojandita, Otavalo As the name might suggest, this Andean resting spot is part-British owned, which also shows in the country-garden flowers and cutesy cabins.
  • (17) We’re taking a slightly more disciplined approach now: no building in the cluster should be trying to shout down its neighbour.” For the past year – since the departure of chief planner Peter Rees, who had a thing for towers with quirky profiles and cutesy nicknames – Richards and his team have been developing a 3D digital model that visualises the invisible planning constraints in the City.
  • (18) It's a seductive mix of cutesy visuals and extreme blood-splattered chaos.
  • (19) Some names are a bit cutesy for my liking, but then same-sex couples do not have the thousands of years of precedent to follow, as straight couples do.
  • (20) Then, like now, I split my time between the brutalist centre of Corby, and a handful of the smaller towns and villages that seem to exist in a different world: Thrapston, Irthlingborough – and Oundle, the cutesy settlement built around the public school of the same name (and, weirdly, the one-time home of Billy Bragg, who wrote his enduring classic A New England at No 15 North Street, two minutes from the short stay car park).

Precious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
  • (a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.
  • (a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (2) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (3) It didn’t come off, and Leicester emerge with the most precious of wins.
  • (4) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
  • (5) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
  • (6) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
  • (7) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (8) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
  • (9) Earlier, he said in a newspaper editorial that last month's natural disasters and the nuclear crisis presented Japan with "a precious window of opportunity to secure the 'rebirth of Japan' ".
  • (10) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
  • (11) Hunt questioned what real actions arose out of the report and said that it contained far too many consultations with precious little action.
  • (12) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
  • (13) The list of organisations to which he was prepared to give precious time was impressive, and included the Booker Prize management committee, the British Association for American Studies, the SDP arts policy committee, the Eastern Arts Association, the King's Lynn literary festival and the Norwich festival.
  • (14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (15) He tried it in November 2014 in Belgium and, although Wales got a precious point and drew 0-0, Bale spent too long waiting for the ball that never came.
  • (16) Elaboration however is subject to operator interpretation and often eliminates precious information from the areas of interest.
  • (17) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
  • (18) Besides that, instead of wire made, elements for support and stabilization cast of semiprecious and non-precious alloys also give much better results.
  • (19) He had been trapped in his cabin by a second explosion as he went to retrieve his precious cameras.
  • (20) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.