girlishness

Example Sentences

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Ms. Hoffman’s Desdemona has a pronounced, wide-eyed girlishness that makes her confusion at her husband’s suspicions and growing antagonism pitiful to watch.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

“There was a girlishness to Shiv back then, but she has transformed into a woman,” she said, “and that reflects my own journey as part of the series.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

In the script, she wrote herself the stage direction “HEIDI releases any last remnants of the buoyant, performative girlishness that is one of her lifelong coping mechanisms.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019

That’s where, in the script, she’s written a stage direction that makes me gulp: “Heidi releases any last remnants of the buoyant, performative girlishness that is one of her lifelong coping mechanisms.”

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

Richard Hughes, she now understood very well, had known her very little, and had loved only her prettiness and light girlishness, charms which were different from anything in his own life.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth