boylike
Example Sentences
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Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And when Steve caught sight of Jim's sober face and heard the story, he thought it very boylike and rather amusing.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
He waved a farewell after the other, boylike.
From Jack Winters' Campmates by Mark Overton
But, boylike, we discounted all she said, and felt we wanted some of this world before we knocked at the gates of the next.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell
By and by, on a gentle breeze springing up from the southward and westward, Master Bob, boylike, suggested their slipping the Zephyr’s moorings and going for a little sail out into the offing.
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene