school-boyish

It increased his school-boyish quality: he bit his bottom lip, concentrating.

The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

His face is doughy and school-boyish, almost at odds with his powerful arms and shoulders; his green army shirt is rolled up at the sleeves, exposing very ornate tattoos of naked women on his forearms.

Belfast Diaries 2008

During this stay in Paris Oscar read enormously and his French, which had been school-boyish, became quite good.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

The whole was written in a large, loose-jointed, and school-boyish hand, very thin on the up strokes and thick on the down, as though care and pains had gone to the fashioning of it.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

Now, I ask, apart from the school-boyish, crude composition of the poem, which throws suspicion merely on the taste, not precisely on the power, of a poet -- where is even the faintest tinge of poetry?

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

I need you in my life and I offer you certain advantages which it would be silly and school-boyish for me to deny I possess.

Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

During this stay in Paris Oscar read enormously and his French, which had been school-boyish, became quite good.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

In one of these school-boyish papers the old man came upon

The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Lancaster eyed the notes, then took up the envelope and drew out a sheet of paper of poor quality, bearing a few lines in a school-boyish hand.

Till the Clock Stops 1902

Both envelopes were of precisely the same make, and were each addressed to Mr. Hawke's London address in a round, school-boyish, copy-book sort of hand – the hand so easy to write and so difficult to being home to any writer on account of its want of individuality.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894