more girlish
Example Sentences
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Her style, especially when she was married to now King Charles III, deviated subtly from the royal formula, sometimes incorporating more masculine or more girlish touches, like double-breasted military-style jackets and the occasional dropped-waist dress.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
Symphony's voice is higher, her tone brighter, more girlish and breathless.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2019
Marie, here the young, penetrating soprano Asmik Grigorian, is a more girlish and irresponsible, less sympathetically maternal presence than usual.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2017
Her nasal, girlish voice grows more girlish still as Nettie recalls happy memories of childhood as if fondling beloved mementoes pulled from a long-locked drawer.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2010
Alone with a companion of not much more than her own age, Miss Tomalin manifested relief; she began to move about, looking at things with frank curiosity, and talking in a more girlish way.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
