Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a girlish manner.
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- adverb In a
girlish manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb like a girl
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Examples
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Rather than address any of them the merits, you fixated on one gratuitous use of "girlishly," as if to imply that the article was about about.
"The GOP has morphed from a party that reveres limited government to a party that is girlishly infatuated with executive authority." Ann Althouse 2007
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Margene, who was often portrayed as girlishly naive, seemed an odd choice to pursue a life of service.
Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer 2011
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When the drugged woman regresses back to childhood, becoming girlishly compliant once more, it seems good at first.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Ard-siúr put up a restraining hand while she finished her thought, her pen scribbling across the page, her lip caught girlishly between her teeth as she worked.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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He was a tall, skinny boy with butterscotch-colored skin and long black braids that curled girlishly against his shoulders.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Mother giggled girlishly when we rode in the rickshaw and slowly was "cottoning" to Harry.
Carole Mallory: A Reunion And A Flirtation In Sixties Hong Kong Carole Mallory 2011
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When the drugged woman regresses back to childhood, becoming girlishly compliant once more, it seems good at first.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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He appears on American Bandstand, squeaking and spinning in gold Lycra leggings and a lilac ladies matador jacket, girlishly singing about shagging women until their ears drop off, brimming with strut, until the music finishes and host Dick Clarke asks him a simple question and Prince is struck mute.
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"A queer house," Mrs. Hale laughed girlishly and contentedly.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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He was a tall, skinny boy with butterscotch-colored skin and long black braids that curled girlishly against his shoulders.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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