Sentence example with the word 'boyish'

boyish

adolescent, calflike, diluted, frail, immature, maiden, puppyish, slight, subtle, thin-set, watered, wispy

Definition adj. befitting or characteristic of a young boy

Last update: July 31, 2015


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He gave a boyish grin.   [Please select]

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As a boy he was active, lively and docile; a good walker, but ignorant of all boyish games, as naïf and as innocent as a child; and he never could learn to dance or to ride.   [Please select]

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Like Lamb, he was a small, boyish figure, gentle, and elaborately courteous.   [Please select]

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With boyish glee he capered about the room, jingling the coins in his hands.   [Please select]

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"Her son, Jimmy Clarke, has taken a boyish fancy to me, it seems."   [Please select]

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Dion, you don't know how boyish you still are.   [Please select]

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He felt immeasurably old beside Joe's boyish blustering--old and rather helpless.   [Please select]

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Under the white lights his boyish figure looked strangely long.   [Please select]

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