puppyish

But I must not reason on that basis, which is too puppyish.

He was still too full of puppyish enthusiasm and curiosity.

By the time they stood before the ruin, Stanton had lost his puppyish ways.

I had all the puppyish enthusiasm of a curator on his first job."

It is less grand but more puppyish and friendly.

The genial, playful, puppyish side of him found little expression.

But their puppyish romance is the trivial pretext for the war rather than its true cause.

His feeling is of barely contained, almost puppyish eagerness.

But even then she didn't howl: she made small puppyish noises.

If he wants to talk, she will listen with puppyish attention or laugh when he cracks a joke.

His sneakers looked too large for his slender calves and gave him a puppyish look.

Ollie, old son, I said to myself, your puppyish fraternising is misplaced.

But she seems unlikely to succumb to marriage fever, despite the puppyish devotion of her model boyfriend.

He felt a puppyish need for company almost as strong as his earlier necessity for quiet.

The boy let out a distinctly puppyish squeal.

Their puppyish faces alone are enough to show that the students in "American High" are not actors.

He smiled in a hopeful, puppyish way.

The large paws only accentuated this thinness and gave the wolf a puppyish air.

Deliberately she removed her gaze and stared about the room with a naive and puppyish interest.

Mr. Gingrich also scorned the President's puppyish desire to please.

He whimpered with hunger, low puppyish sounds that called up an involuntary echo from her own throat.

She was the most puppyish.

Then her parents gave her the dog Hope, and his puppyish neediness revived her interest in things.

The Fool brought that old optimism out in me again, and even the wolf seemed puppyish and fey for the days he was with us.

Yes, even to the puppyish hands and feet, the serenely sensual face, the tousled, too-long hair.