The Heartbreak Kid - the tomboyishness is a lot like me. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Monaghan on Truckin' It] Reference
She appears to be a happy, healthy girl with no visible signs of tomboyishness, despite her XY karyotype. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
If Superheros like her could cry, then I could cry and it didn't take away from my tomboyishness or my strengths or any of my accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [SUPERGIRL] Reference
Little Women, for her tomboyishness and intelligence and rebelliousness. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters]
Officially, then, he acquitted her of anything worse than tomboyishness. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
The drama in female characters usually comes from their rebelliousness, their inability to follow rules, their feistiness, their refusal to settle, their hot tempers, at the very least their tomboyishness or mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Breathless, she stumbled and fell into her father's arms, and both men had the same thought, one that made them smile upon her tomboyishness indulgently: "If this is twenty-one -- eighteen is three long years younger and less responsible!". From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
She was not quite so thin, the dark circles under her grey eyes had vanished, and she found not only in herself but even in the most middle-aged of her associates a delightful spirit of tomboyishness in their swelling revolt against the Liberal leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
There’s also girls who’d feel similarly uncomfortable if forced towards tomboyishness – not that Dux advocates this, but it’sone potential consequence of her solution. From Wordnik.com. [2008 August 12 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference
War of the Worlds), who continues her reign as the most astonishing child actor ever -- is a real-kid kid, all tumbledown tomboyishness and little-girl dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [FlickFilosopher.com] Reference
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