girlish
Example Sentences
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There was nothing girlish or even mock-girlish about their swagger — they were women.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I had girlish manners, a girlish voice," he would later say.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Isolde is a mercurial character, and Ms. Davidsen expressed her simmering rage, her girlish flirtatiousness, and her serenity in the “Liebestod.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
She could be sweet, evil, overbearing, put-upon, thoughtful, impulsive, girlish, vulnerable or manipulative and superimpose selected qualities for extra complexity, always with a compressed energy, obvious or veiled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
But all Patria saw were pretty notebooks written in a girlish hand.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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