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as in boyish
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Recent Examples of girlish
Elizabeth arrives, sweeping into the joint, breathlessly, on a gust of girlish ambition.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
At the waist of Deutch’s dress, a statement bow made of metallic silver beading featured, giving the dress a playful, girlish quality.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Pop stars like Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter conjured girlish elegance in pale gowns with feathers and ruffles.
—The Styles Desk, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
At the waist of Deutch’s dress, a statement bow made of metallic silver beading featured, giving the dress a playful, girlish quality.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Pop stars like Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter conjured girlish elegance in pale gowns with feathers and ruffles.
—The Styles Desk, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlish
Adjective
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Take a cue from this blonde billionaire and pair your outerwear with a sophisticated matching bag and feminine ballet flats.—
Collette Grimes,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
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Nicky Hilton Rothschild Hilton Rothschild made her case for the return of coquette — a post-pandemic trend centered around hyper-feminine fashion — with a half-up pony secured by a satin ribbon, which mirrored the design on her Marc Jacobs dress.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Blessed with wonderfully expressive, almost boyish faces, these actors are barely able to contain their excitement about taking this journey together.—
Jenny Lumet,
Vanity Fair,
10 Feb. 2026
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Olah is a boyish, elfin prodigy who, at nineteen, met Amodei on his first visit to the Bay Area.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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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
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Getting forced to play little league baseball is about as emo as youthful tribulations get.—
Billie Bugara,
Pitchfork,
10 Feb. 2026
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Korinek is youthful and slender, with delicate wire-frame glasses and a faintly red beard.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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On her first mission in 2019, Meir took part in the first all-female spacewalk.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Friday that its less than 2-week-old female Asian elephant has been named Linh Mai, Vietnamese for spirit blossom.—
Michael E. Ruane,
Washington Post,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There's no exact cause known for the rise in cancers among young people, according to experts, but researchers are trying to figure it out.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media platforms are doing enough to protect the mental health of young people.—
Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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In an era of girly pop, the group’s star is sure to continue to rise.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
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Valentine's Day is the perfect time of year for a fun and girly manicure.—
Kara Jillian Brown,
InStyle,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This sort of behavior is childish and unsophisticated.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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These people are so childish and petty.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Girlish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlish. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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