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girlishly

girlishly adverb: in a girlish manner.

Adverb

girlishly (comparative more girlishly, superlative most girlishly)

  1. In a girlish manner.
    • Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."1879, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    • "What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […]"1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in World So Wide
    Synonyms:
    girlily, girly

Synonyms of girlishly

Forms of girlishly

comparativemore girlishly
superlativemost girlishly

Origin of girlishly

From girlish + -ly.

Questions about girlishly

What does girlishly mean?
Girlishly means in a girlish manner.
What part of speech is girlishly?
Girlishly is an adverb.

Words near girlishly in the dictionary

  1. girlily
  2. girlina
  3. girliness
  4. girling
  5. girlish
  6. girlishly
  7. girlishness
  8. girlishnesses
  9. girlism
  10. girlisms
  11. girlitis

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