hoydenish
Example Sentences
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Slyly, she begins by underplaying the grand lady affectations; she’s a Dolly who might really have lived on the Lower East Side, who still has an accent and a coarse, hoydenish swagger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017
Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees.
From Time Magazine Archive
During such passages, the women, looking hoydenish in ankle socks, are reminders of dissonance and jazz to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had the most unbounded admiration for her stately, handsome grandmother, who by some strange attraction of opposites, had an especially soft place in her heart for her hoydenish little namesake.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
