endearing

Wiry and dangerous, the character is also strangely endearing.

I find them endearing, like something that somebody made with absolutely no pretension for it to be art.

He says it was "evidence of the endearing amateurism around the gig".

He cultivated an image of a tough-talking and anti-establishment man of the masses, endearing him to Filipinos who elected him as the country's first president from the southern island of Mindanao.

Their relationships soon fracture into compounding insecurities, yet their brotherly affection persists, making this short one of the most endearing nominees in any of the shorts categories.