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
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
Silverstone, whom pop culture met as a teenager, is 41 now, but with an innate girlishness that age cannot wither nor the cigarettes Bonnie is forever waving disguise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2018
Providing some tempering warmth is Alice, channeled with lively girlishness and a plummy British accent by Kathy Gordon.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2015
Was it her slender beauty, her girlishness, that had made him so passionately pitiful?
From The New Warden by Ritchie, Mrs. David G.
