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• Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with the boyish smile.December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023. From the entry practical joker
• Two flags of color rosied the jut of his cheekbones, giving him an unexpectedly boyish look.2014, Lynn Viehl, Disenchanted & Co.. From the entry rosy
• "You heard?" he asked with the most boyish glee I ever saw in him.2013, Nicolas, Banksters, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN. From the entry lawsuitable
• McCartney was boyish onstage, making faces and tousling and retousling his hair.2009 July 19, Jon Pareles, “For McCartney, a New Stage to Call His Own”, in New York Times. From the entry retousle
• There's still something boyish about Muldoon, and still something birdlike; strigiform.2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry strigiform
• Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia.1942 September 5, Irving Wallace, “The Loves of Lana Turner”, in Liberty magazine. From the entry lana
• Last year Chinese coolie coats were the rage, along with snazzy neckties and boyish bobs.1927 September 20, “Dad is anxious to see what s[tyles?] in high school: Casts anxious eye on school mode; short slickers are due”, in…. From the entry snazzy
• “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259. From the entry aghast
• She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.1991, Katherine Paterson, Lyddie. From the entry go
• When he smiled, the slight pursiness of his mouth disappeared, and a markedly irregular front tooth gave him a boyish air.1969, Susan Morrow, chapter 13, in A Season of Evil, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 120. From the entry pursiness
• And I don’t whistle either, it’s so boyish.1967, Peter Clapham, Little Women: A Play in Three Acts; Adapted by Peter Clapham from the Novel by Louisa M. Alcott (Evans Plays)…. From the entry vocabularium
• Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.1958, Vance Nye Bourjaily, The Violated: A Novel. From the entry teetotaling
• The sight of McGregor, creased but still boyish, returning to an eerily fogbound Hundred Acre Wood is calculated to well up eyes, and it works.2018 August 2, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney goes back to the Hundred Acre Wood in the wistful Christopher Robin”, in AV Club, archived…. From the entry creased
• He has that boyish, eager smile on his dish face. (I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw him that he was dish-faced.2012, Ellen Douglas, The Rock Cried Out, page 173. From the entry dish-faced
• Dr Gill says: "Phillip Schofield went from being a gorky boyish chump to a daytime anchor when he went back to grey.2009 January 22, Maria Croce, “Rise of the silver fox: Why grey is best look for older men”, in Daily Record, Scotland. From the entry gorky
• The twinkling gleam in the blue eyes was playful, almost boyish, but the well rounded chest, board flat stomach and tight bottom were anything but.2009, Dave Russell, Raritan Female Institute, page 90. From the entry Cleopatran
• Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center.2006 July 23, James Carney, “The Rise and Fall of Ralph Reed”, in Time, retrieved 19 Mar 2014. From the entry spear carrier
• However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry homme fatal
• "I figure I might as well be gay and risquée while I can," she says, with a little tremor in her boyish voice.1943 April 10, Dorothy Kilgallen, “The Magic Moniker”, in Collier’s, volume 111, number 15, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier…. From the entry risqué
• His feet were clad in brightly colored sneakers that made her think of the boyish side of him that often emerged when he was video gaming.2023, Caridad Piñeiro, chapter 10, in Biscayne Bay Breach (South Beach Security; 3), Harlequin Intrigue, →ISBN. From the entry video game
• One is the sort of girl who's really got it together and who has a sort of boyish look and who's really got it going on.2006 May 9, Karen O., “Big Gay Following”, in The Advocate, volume 962, page 32. From the entry got it going on
• And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown.1951, Roland Pertwee, The River God, page 7. From the entry Sherlock Holmesy
• "What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings. From the entry jodhpurs
• Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name?1921 George Jean Nathan, Henry Mencken: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness. Item notes:v64:1(Jan.1921):page 4. From the entry willie

Meaning of boyish

1. adjective Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
2. adjective Relating to a boy, or occurring in boyhood.

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How do you use boyish in a sentence?

Boyish is used as an adjective. For example: “People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.”

What is a short sentence with boyish?

“Her boyish figure belied her femininity.”

What does boyish mean?

Boyish means like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.