Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being boyish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The manners or behavior of a boy.
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- noun The characteristic of being
boyish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being characteristic of a boy
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Examples
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He says these guys are able to juggle serious careers, mortgages and even relationships with the pursuit of "boyishness" because to them, it's like balancing work and family.
Vanessa Richmond: 'Having Kids Is So Gay': The Rise of a New Male Demographic 2009
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He had that sunny boyishness which is so irresistible to young and old.
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But now, the strain lessened, his face revealed that charm of boyishness which is always curiously attractive in a man who has actually left his boyhood behind him.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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As Bradley listened with a half-saddened smile to the grave visions of this aged enthusiast, he remembered the son's unsophisticated simplicity: what he had considered as the "boyishness" of immaturity was the taint of the utterly unpractical Mainwaring blood.
A Phyllis of the Sierras Bret Harte 1869
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There was a kind of boyishness in the rumors which the newspapers circulated (not seldom with intent to dispirit), and the people believed on the authority of reliable gentlemen from
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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He says these guys are able to juggle serious careers, mortgages and even relationships with the pursuit of "boyishness" because to them, it's like balancing work and family.
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He says these guys are able to juggle serious careers, mortgages and even relationships with the pursuit of "boyishness" because to them, it's like balancing work and family.
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Co-starring the ubiquitous Ryan Reynolds, the film works well, or not, according to who is on screen: As Tobin's outmatched opponent, CIA "housekeeper" Matt Weston he maintains the agency's safe house in Cape Town, Mr. Reynolds brings an appropriate degree of naiveté and boyishness to a film that's largely about loss of innocence.
'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012
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It was definitely published for adults, Lyle, but has a probably unintended boyishness to it I think kids would respond to.
Man Without a Face Roger Sutton 2009
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Justine's boor-of-a newly-minted husband Alexander Skarsgard, whose boyishness reminded me of Gael Garcia Bernal, ad-company schmear for boss and best-man
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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