adv. colloq. Also ’cutely. [Aphetic f. ACUTELY: see CUTE a.] In a cute manner, acutely.

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1762.  Foote, Orator, I. Wks. 1796, I. 194. I did speechify once at a vestry … and came off cutely enough.

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1864.  Louie’s Last Term (N. Y.), 79. So he pricked up his ears, and said cutely [etc.].

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