girlish

Example Sentences

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"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

With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

Often, Bannon will toss the mic, virtually, to his 23-year-old co-host Natalie Winters, a blond Californian who has a side business selling a girlish right-wing clothing line.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2024

Propelled from the depths of her ignorance, silly imagining and girlish rectitude, she had come to call a halt.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan