boyish

[ UK /bˈɔ‍ɪɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɪɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. befitting or characteristic of a young boy
    schoolboyish pranks
    a boyish grin
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How To Use boyish In A Sentence

  • This twenty-something Wood-elf is not what you would call devilishly handsome yet is never-the-less attractive in a somewhat boyish way. Undefined
  • But, despite my boyish good looks, I'm probably unlikely to be engaged for either role.
  • He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
  • His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls.
  • March 11, 2006, 5: 04 pm credit counseling says: credit counseling scraping accruing, Habib! boyish: possessional contrasting The Volokh Conspiracy » WASHINGTON TIMES AND WINE WARS:
  • A dapper man with an aristocratic air, he was boyishly handsome, compulsively social and intensely creative.
  • Rigg leapt to his feet and let out a boyish, privick, unprincely hoot of happiness. Pathfinder
  • Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
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