Adjective : girlish laughter. From Dictionary.com.
Gladys Wells with an effect of girlishness, quite misleading. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Buccari asked with affected girlishness, and everyone laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
She flung herself on him with the avid girlishness of a Bengal tiger. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness. From Wordnik.com. [In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan] Reference
She has retained just enough girlishness to add a playful vulnerability. From Wordnik.com. [Monah Li: Dress Yourself in Confidence] Reference
The past few weeks had finally shocked every remnant of girlishness out of her system. From Wordnik.com. [Wyoming Territory]
After I zeroed in on her personality, I realized there was a young girlishness about her. From Wordnik.com. [Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)] Reference
As I said at first, girls, girlishness, while inferior to womanliness, is no hindrance to it. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
But girlishness, construed to mean just a love of dress and finery, does not make womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Without any consciousness of the fault I committed, I summoned the deity from mere girlishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
She looked like a charming boy without having lost her girlishness; she was their friend and ally. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at the Feast] Reference
Secondly, as my book is not yet out to the general public, I was not anticipating fan-girlishness in any form. From Wordnik.com. [They Came From the Squealer Side - In Which Gail Encounters a Fan Girl] Reference
But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Position] Reference
The little mother has aged sixteen years in those six years, and there is not a trace left of her girlishness and youthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
He remembered the sweet girlishness of her face, the freshness of it which was like the freshness of a garden in the early morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
He whispers his name, which was to have been mine as well, and I find myself possessed of that lost girlishness he claimed would slay him. From Wordnik.com. [Keats's Afterlife] Reference
She was charismatic: small, with pale skin and flaming red hair, and a perpetual girlishness that made her underlying sexiness even sexier. From Wordnik.com. [Books: A New Day For Ms. Millay] Reference
It shut him off from those of his own age, and to a great extent made him unable to fully sympathize with his sisters in their girlishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
The pathetic girlishness which she had revealed to him had gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
Farnum's gaze took in her slender girlishness, and he voiced the question in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Brand Blotters] Reference
Much of the girlishness was gone and the firmer roundness of full femininity had taken its place. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
It was amusing, yet nevertheless puzzling, to hear this boyish young man comment upon Susy's girlishness. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
Will you say no youthful lover would have inspired such a gush of the tenderest and profoundest girlishness?. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
It was the girlishness in her that made girls love her society, while they adored her in her own proper place. From Wordnik.com. [Love of Brothers] Reference
She seemed to have grown younger; in her voice and manner there was a girlishness which was quite new to Waymark. From Wordnik.com. [The Unclassed] Reference
A change had again come over her manner; the girlishness was modified, the old sadder tone was audible at moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Unclassed] Reference
She had an open face, a baby smile and there was a frank girlishness about her dress and manner that took my fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
The scant, brief skirt fore-shortened her; gave her a stork-like appearance; a combination of girlishness and matronliness not pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
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