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as in feminine
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as in boyish
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Recent Examples of girlish
Wuthering Heights has the tunnel-vision horniness and girlish aesthetic sensibility of a high-school freshman who’s been assigned to read Brontë in class while tearing through a pile of explicit bodice-rippers under the covers at home.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
With her girlish grin and short blonde hair, Rebecca looked ten years old.
—Joni Eareckson Tada, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth arrives, sweeping into the joint, breathlessly, on a gust of girlish ambition.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
With her girlish grin and short blonde hair, Rebecca looked ten years old.
—Joni Eareckson Tada, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth arrives, sweeping into the joint, breathlessly, on a gust of girlish ambition.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlish
Adjective
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Everyone has to play their role, the masculine and feminine.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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Hygiene products are included, too, for deodorant, feminine needs and other concerns.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In person, Puth has a boyish style, like a musical variant of actor Paul Rudd.—
Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Nothing except getting into fierce arguments with fellow-Jews, some would say, which Olitzky—who has a round, boyish face and a conciliatory manner—portrayed as a privilege rather than a burden.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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On the left: a photograph of a blurred womanly figure, her white dress smeared into an avian or angelic wingspan, her head eerily effaced, allowing the forest behind her to show sharply through.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Some youngsters, like McCall Elementary School fifth grader Camila Garcia, were both youthful celebrants and feting other children at the same time.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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As the Panthers prepare to defend their NFC South crown, the veterans on the roster might need to prepare for some youthful competition.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Song of the Goddess, 1992, which Pau made while living in New York, is a tribute to the secret real-life romance between two female Cantonese opera stars, Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Investigators said the argument escalated into a physical fight when the female suspect began swinging and striking the victim in the chest and head and then pulling her hair.—
Alexa Ashwell,
Baltimore Sun,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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His mom likes another young lady for her son, not my daughter.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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This particular adaptation bookends the story with the character Alba (played in young adulthood by Rocío Hernández), the granddaughter of the clairvoyant matriarch Clara del Valle (played in older age by Dolores Fonzi) and the conservative, volatile patriarch Esteban Trueba (Alfonso Herrera).—
Laura Zornosa,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Danielle Fishel shows off her girly side in florals at the Hulu Get Real House event in Los Angeles on April 22.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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Now Venerdì Pomeriggio promises to keep faith with Ponti’s signature girly and whimsical aesthetic but within a different business framework, hinged on smaller production, a sustainable focus and lower price points compared to her previous line.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That’s as childish an expression as the show ever shares.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
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The use of childish internet and video-game memes to describe violence is coarse and unworthy of the men and women who go in harm’s way.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Girlish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlish. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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