Adjective

(en adjective)

Of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Polly Toynbee)

, volume=189, issue=10, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Britain's booming birthrate , passage=People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.}}

Regarded with love or tenderness.

(pejorative) Treated with too much reverence.

(pejorative) Contrived to be cute or charming.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Attractive; pleasant to regard.

* 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:

I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.