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hoydenish

adjective as in girlish

adjective as in mannish

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Example Sentences

I shall not object to her going to Ivy Lodge sometimes in this way, if it does not make her rough or hoydenish.'

Stately in satin, or simple in gingham, or deliciously hoydenish in fishing-clothes, they challenged his surprised attention.

Las Cases, however, was always ready to criticise Miss Betsy, whose hoydenish ways he could never understand.

I really began to think that the only hoydenish people I had ever seen were ladies and gentlemen.

She varied from delicately phrased sentimentalities to hoydenish physical impertinences.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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