cutesy

adj

1. Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.

   “The couple called each other cutesy pet names like "honeypot" and "smoochie-poochie" that disgusted everyone else.”

   “If each subject attracts roughly the same amount of attention (and with a judgmental adjustment to drop the more cutesy papers), that's roughly 100 papers per topic.”