elfin
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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Smiling his little elfin smile, he sometimes looks no older than that 11-year-old boy who had the world taken from him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
The evening before, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 37, had conducted that ensemble with crisply elfin spirit as one of the leading candidates to take over when Jaap van Zweden, 62, leaves at the end of next season.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023
He took part in a charity fundraiser in full scuba kit and had an elfin hand from one of his team.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2022
“You have no faith in me! You do not realize my value to the elfin kingdom!”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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