Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a boyish manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a boyish manner; like a boy.
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- adverb In a
boyish manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb like a boy
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Examples
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You may recall the boyishly handsome, 6-foot-5 choreographer's moment as one
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In the trouser role of Ruggiero, Katharine Goeldner, a young American mezzo-soprano previously unknown to me, was stunning - "boyishly" beautiful of manner, alive to every nuance of one of Handel's richest heroic roles.
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In the trouser role of Ruggiero, Katharine Goeldner, a young American mezzo-soprano previously unknown to me, was stunning - "boyishly" beautiful of manner, alive to every nuance of one of Handel's richest heroic roles.
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Oh, see here, "boyishly," I brought something for you to-night.
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Alexander looks boyishly happy at guiding his date through the place.
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He had a worried look on his boyishly handsome face, like he was anticipating a fight.
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Ell's boyishly good looks betray him in a setting meant to be ripe with sweat and sex and passion.
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Alexander looks boyishly happy at guiding his date through the place.
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Surrounded by a few well-edited and suggestive elements, Miller—blond and blue-eyed, and boyishly handsome—sits smack in the center of the store at a simple table.
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Alexander looks boyishly happy at guiding his date through the place.
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