How To Use Girlish In A Sentence

Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
I began walking down the hallway but stopped when I heard two girlish giggles erupt from behind a room.
Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
And both mouths, while generously proportioned, carried the impression of girlish sweetness and chastity along with the muscles that could draw the lips to the firmness and harshness that would not give the lie to the square, uncleft chins beneath. CHAPTER IX
He was often unable to resist her girlish charms and detested the thought of making the poor child work more than she should.

He has a surprisingly boyish voice, with a comical, girlish giggle. Times, Sunday Times
The years have softened his face into an almost girlish blur. Times, Sunday Times
Each song is wrapped up in girlish emotion that transcends the love and loss theme that every other female artist seems to stumble into.
Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
She has tousled, spiky hair that manages to look girlish.
The slightly whiney girlishness that sometimes surfaced unintentionally has been replaced by a confident womanliness, and for the first time you are aware of her extraordinary sexual power.
On the flip side, emphasising girlishness as desirable facilitates the multibillion-dollar sales of anti-aging cosmetics, creams and plastic surgery.
She felt herself give an involuntary shudder and scolded her girlish urges.
He didn't hear the bright, girlish voice calling out his name again and again until his caller stood right before him.
A sense of girlish fantasy and romance underlies these works, one that is tinged with sickness and mortality as well as that creepy airlessness which Todd has made her own.
In 1930, far from being a gravelly diseuse, she possessed a girlish soprano, that makes her dirty delivery all the more shocking.
When it happened, solving a clue was so thrilling that our girlish giggles were momentarily replaced with a worrying desire to crush our opponents. Times, Sunday Times
When I used to think that I'd keep my young, girlish figure forever, I was really fooling myself.
One has a phlegmatic cackle; the other a girlish giggle that belies her 86 years. Times, Sunday Times
Prostate cancer treatment invitingly to the girlishly sensing pop logagraphia and you voider tinnitus a annular percoidean in the steering. Rational Review
He thinks her little pettish ways are mere girlish moods; but when she becomes his wife, and reveals her selfish and cruel nature, he is grieved and hurt to think fate has been so unkind to him. Archive 2008-11-01
He has a surprisingly boyish voice, with a comical, girlish giggle. Times, Sunday Times
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
She's completely fresh, girlish, and accomplishes neatly the transition from kittenish innocence to energy and greed.
Joyce plays with the idea of musical sounds, with peals of girlish giggles, snatches of songs, ringing of bells and tapping of canes creating a symphony of noise.
The author herself lives up to her surname, wearing a schoolgirlish grey flannel minidress over jeans, with pink ballet pumps. Times, Sunday Times
And no, my weakness was not in easily succumbing to her girlish charms.
We left him there, his head still spinning with thoughts of Minnie, and her delightful, exuberant girlishness.
She was trying to keep her expression haughty, Chekov suspected, but the flush of girlish anger that leapt into her cheeks when Uhura drew alongside her betrayed more than he thought she realized. Firestorm
One has a phlegmatic cackle; the other a girlish giggle that belies her 86 years. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice was girlish and eager.
Mademoiselle was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt.
Jill McCall, brand manager at Cadbury, is careful to point out the difference between the indulgent, feminine bars (Flake, Galaxy) and the masculine "hunger bars" (Boost, Snickers), which are nut-filled and huge, and fill you up rather than provide a girlish "treat", thereby creating markets within markets. The truth about men, women and food
Patience's death had written there irradicably, with poverty speaking from every fold of the blouse and skirt, yet with all the indescribable charm of girlish beauty at fifteen, Lydia was more appealing than Lydia of the Pines
The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness. In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan
She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
We left him there, his head still spinning with thoughts of Minnie, and her delightful, exuberant girlishness.
Prostate cancer treatment invitingly to the girlishly sensing pop logagraphia and you voider tinnitus a annular percoidean in the steering. Rational Review
Dressed in gauzy white tunics, they move with a girlish sweetness that identifies them as the nymphs from Nijinsky's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune. Russell Maliphant Company
The dangling element will brighten up a simple ponytail without making you look too schoolgirlish. Times, Sunday Times
Violinist Chee-Yun, though still girlish in appearance, is a seasoned veteran of the world's stages whose first of many D.C. appearances was in 1988, presented by the Korean Concert Society, at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Violinist Chee-Yun plays lovely Bach, Messiaen, Saint-Saens at Kennedy Center
There's something not a little heart-breaking in seeing intelligent, beautiful women whose faces show their experience going through the motions of fey girlishness.
The film centers around twelve year-old Maxi, a swishy boy whose preferences for girlish clothes, romantic movies and Miss Universe pageant reenactments makes him a target for teasing in his ghetto neighborhood. 2009 June : Scrubbles.net
Lance and Wayne barged in with obnoxiously loud voices and girlish giggles.
The Boss gasps, suppressing his unmanly girlish enthusiasm.
The wiggly, fuzzy boas were frilly and girlish but also spermlike.
Irritating silly schoolgirlish giggling from the "journalists" while they were leading Vince Cable into their trap. Dr Cable: From Saint Vince to Mr Bean | Editorial
As Greg got closer, he could hear girlish giggles coming from the spa area.
I look girlish, and I'm elegant, but my character is more like a boy, I think.
She had seemed so girlish, chattering on about clothes and gossiping about the recent betrothals.
They had money, they had organizational skills, and they had long ago lost the girlish need to please.
But when I heard his girlish scream echo out across the waves I had a change of heart.
They often had tiny spats about Maddie's aversion to anything girlish or even hinting towards being a woman.
When it happened, solving a clue was so thrilling that our girlish giggles were momentarily replaced with a worrying desire to crush our opponents. Times, Sunday Times
A cigarette between his girlish lips seemed to be emitting smoke of its own accord.
Ordinarily there was a suspicion of hardness in her face but there was also upon occasions a kind of winsomeness, an unexpected peeping out of a personality which was like the wraith of the child which she once had been -- a suggestion of girlish charm and spontaneity utterly unlike her usual self. The Lady Doc
She had entirely lost her girlish chubbiness.
She presents her sitter with an almost girlish animation. Times, Sunday Times
When a woman isn't into a guy or sees him as threatening, she'll hold back her girlish giggle, the researchers add.
Kreis seemed to wake up and flash like some metallic, magnetic thing, while Norton looked at Martin sympathetically, with a sweet, girlish smile, as much as to say that he would be amply protected. Chapter 36
She moves plausibly from girlish complicity in her half-brother's fantasies to vengeful grief.
Blake is particularly captivating, moving between sober housewife and mother, to girlish seductress and committed adulteress with believable veracity, consistently evoking sympathy.
In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes.
At 48, she even has something girlish about her, as she awaits the delivery of her Christmas tree.
Yet the collections were more than usually colourful, joyful and at times almost girlish. Times, Sunday Times
His skin was bluish through the water and from the edges of his bathing cap flowed long girlish hair.
It was tattered and dog-eared, and its margins bore notes in my mother's girlish hand.
The schoolgirlish charm of a good shirt. Times, Sunday Times
Her direct, active and assertive engagement with the camera was shocking in a land where schoolgirlish giggling and "cuteness" were considered most arousing to men of all ages.
A lad of four or five in linseywoolsey (blossomtime but there will be cheer in the kindly hearth when ere long the bowls are gathered and hutched) is standing on the urn secured by that circle of girlish fond hands. Ulysses
She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
Her laugh no longer flashed out so hungrily and her eyes, brimming with the secret he and she had made, deepened and seemed to rejoin the girlishness that had lingered in the other features of her face. Updike, John
The other girls were crowded around the coach, speaking in their girlish tones and ignoring her as usual.
she was girlishly shy
The answer came in the form of a shy, pleased schoolgirlish smile. THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ
That had nothing, though, to do with his preference for high, girlish vocals.
And I feel a little more girlish. Somewhere East of Life
The slightly whiney girlishness that sometimes surfaced unintentionally has been replaced by a confident womanliness, and for the first time you are aware of her extraordinary sexual power.
And I feel a little more girlish. Somewhere East of Life
Shortly thereafter, Gwen learns the error of her naïve, girlish, heathen ways.
She looked up and found herself thrown into a schoolgirlish flustered state as she recognised the man from outside the Connaught, the one with the red rose. Final Resting Place of The Pen
The sandals nearly eclipsed Renee's tiny, delicate feet, and Suzie had spent a painstaking quarter of an hour painting her shell-like toenails a girlish shade of pink.
Even Maureen, who generally treats her choleric partner with girlish forbearance, at one point asks: ‘Why do you always shout like that, Rolf?’
In a strange schoolgirlish way, I was under the impression that elite university dons would teach me how to be a legal $$$ criminal on the level of greenmailers and the like. "Resign, or go commit suicide." Who said that to whom?
A month away from her 70th birthday, Fraser exudes girlish enthusiasm and insatiable curiosity.
There in the distance a cloud dislimns which but now lured me to death with its girlish smile. The Indian Lily and Other Stories
As she told the story, Rose put her hands over her mouth and erupted into girlish giggles.
I really believe that a lot of guys picked up on that girlishness and found it extremely sexy in an unconscious way.
She presents her sitter with an almost girlish animation. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice is almost a little girlish while still being intensely adult and slightly reminiscent of a folky, 60's goddess.
Not the Catholic kitsch of bleeding statues and luminous moon-rings that captivate her foolish schoolgirlish heart. The Sighting: James Wolcott
Yet the collections were more than usually colourful, joyful and at times almost girlish. Times, Sunday Times
But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone. Portobello
Lock brings convincing girlishness and kooky charm to the role of Laura; she's particularly funny in an early scene in which the girl -- dressed in pajamas and a helmet -- pretends to be an astronaut. 'If You Give a Pig a Pancake': Holly Twyford goes hog wild
What happens as she ages and her voice grows out of the girlishness it can't get away from, deepens into a woman's voice expressing a woman's soul.
She squeaked with gratitude, sounding oddly like the manager attempting a girlish treble.
It was a time of high good humour, with gales and shrieks of girlish laughter.
Lempicka, with helmet and gauntlets, but over-lipsticked, has her eye on the road in slit-eyed girlish triumph.
Obama may simply keel over on a treadmill; and that would be dam funny given the femmy food he eats to keep his girlish figure. White House Party Crashers Met President Obama - Power to the People or Did They Do Something Wrong?
Perhaps the multilayered skirts were a little girlish and bridal but the dress's innocence and optimism captured the mood of the moment. Times, Sunday Times
In past albums the titillating message was overshadowed by a bouncy, girlish beat and image.
And the guiltiest of girlish secrets? Times, Sunday Times
It does present a contrasting, future side of Bella, maybe even twinged with the fantasy/girlish flare that Alice known for. Twilight Lexicon » Hit Fix: Chris Weitz on New Moon DVD
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You'll recognise the voice too - the mean growls, the girlish coos, the dizzy incantations.
The Widow Weld was a musical-comedy sort of widow in French-heeled, patent-leather slippers and girlish gowns. Half Portions
Bianca is extremely girlishly gremlin-like in this get-up. Taking the boot off
Her eyes, however, betrayed that perfect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this modest attire.
The girlish heroine, whose name itself has a poetic touch, came with a retinue of five, her parents, a hair dresser, an ayah and driver.
For all her girlishness, she's a steely businesswoman and a self-confessed workaholic.
She felt girlish and fluttery and didn't have a clue as to how to hold it all in.
The jaws were strong without massiveness, the nose, large-nostriled, was straight enough and prominent enough without being too straight or prominent, the chin square without harshness and uncleft, and the mouth girlish and sweet to a degree that did not hide the firmness to which the lips could set on due provocation. CHAPTER IV
Her hair had a pageboy cut, and her snub nose was sprinkled with a small amount of freckles that gave Manda an impression that the woman could also be girlish in nature despite her age.
His girlish prattlings cause the nation's women to swoon like silly geese when they should be busy churning butter.
Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
Now that Joel was no longer her patient she could have talked to Eugene about him, described the horror she had felt when this poor man with his dyed yellow hair talked of himself as an angel or a god, and described too the pathetic mother, pared down now to a raw, skinless creature who had grown, in so short a time, from absurd girlishness into her true age. Portobello
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A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots. Strangers at the Feast
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
The years have softened his face into an almost girlish blur. Times, Sunday Times
She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
But another panelist accused me of ‘girlish’ sentimentality and of concocting my emotionalism as a means to sell newspapers.
When she walked into the room, I let out this schoolgirlish scream of "ahhh" and Meryl went "ahhh". BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
Perhaps the multilayered skirts were a little girlish and bridal but the dress's innocence and optimism captured the mood of the moment. Times, Sunday Times
I watch her as she pulls one of the mold-spattered kitchen chairs across the room and perches girlishly on the edge of it, her bare feet splayed over the rungs.
Suddenly she felt a zipper or seam snap in the back of her girlish unitard; panicking, and not wanting to move for fear she'd expose herself, she called the first person who came to mind.
a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear
A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Dave didn't mind our typical giggly girlishness much.
No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery. Isabelle
Other authors' prose was described as mediocre, schoolgirlish nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
Owen would be as tender with him as a woman, allowing the young lad's arm round his body, listening to words which the outer world would have called bosh -- and have derided as girlish. Castle Richmond
And while he enjoys the odd bit of media work he does - reducing ABC radio host and rugby tragic Sally Loane to regular fits of girlish giggles during their weekly chats throughout the 2003 World Cup - he's not grooming himself for a switch to screen any time soon.
The face is plump, smooth and almost girlish, with small perceptive eyes.
She is almost schoolgirlish, in a grey flannel pinafore dress, worn over a striped blue silk shirt. Times, Sunday Times
Her frizzy red hair was pulled back in a pony tail and the freckles that sprinkled her plump cheeks made her seem kindhearted in a girlish sort of way.
The firelight shone upon a comfortably-furnished drawing-room in one of the quiet London squares, and upon four girlish figures grouped around The Carved Cupboard
I sprung for the corridor thankfully and hastily when the doors hissed open, my head still fizzing with the annoying sound of their girlish chatter.
The creepy spectacle of watching one warrior after the next insist that we must risk other people's lives and bomb more people so that we don't feel girlish and scared and submissive is repugnant enough, in itself, to have to witness on a daily basis. September 2006
It makes me a little sad, the thought that the world may lose those girlish matrons emanating lavender and lemon verbena clouds, those out of touch aunts with their funny ways and gentle, kindly hearts.
Rachael, heartily ashamed of what she would have termed her schoolgirlish display of emotion, came slowly to herself, dozed over a magazine, plunged into a cold bath, and at four o'clock dressed herself exquisitely for Mrs. Whittaker's informal dinner. The Heart of Rachael

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