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• s  befitting or characteristic of a young girl
  girlish charm
  a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear

• But however you might describe Carroll's famous picture of Alice, 7, costumed as a sultry beggar girl, girlish is not the word.
• Although she was not blessed with Redgrave's white-hot, almost alarming incandescence that grand stature mixed with a girlish vulnerability Richardson had her own gifts.
• This is about that glorious mezzo-soprano, the gospel growls, the throaty howls, the girlish vocal tickles, the swoops, the dives, the blue-sky high notes, the blue-sea low notes.

• schoolgirlish

News & Articles

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• Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story Gleams with an Advertorial Slickness
  A good talker can be a mixed blessing for the documentary biographer. Tabloid 's Joyce McKinney, for instance, the beauty queen alleged to have abducted and raped a Mormon missionary in the 1970s, proved hypnotically chatty. Every nutty tangent and girlish inflection, as presented by Errol...
  June 11, 2013 - The Village Voice

Quotes

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• Julia Roberts in Reuters
  Appearing on the CBS "Late Show with David Letterman" in May, Roberts said her children "seem to really love each other. He's sort of very boyish and masculine. He has red hair and big green eyes. And she's very girlish and has very blonde hair and...
• Shah Rukh in Hindustan Times
  I don't have many boyfriends. I like being with girls - and probably that's why people think I'm a little girlish. But I don't have any such male bonding with anyone......,Shah Rukh said in the first episode of Discovery Travel & Living's...
• Manish Malhotra in Hindustan Times
  I Hate Luv Stories has Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles and, talking about Sonam's look in the movie, Malhotra said: "She is a fashion icon and her look in the movie is very girlish and young."