(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if Salazar looks boyish then it's because he is in fact a boy.
(2) The effect is of someone with a boyish energy who has had too many Cokes, but even on bad days, says Fox, "I don't care.
(3) She likes the boyishness and the immaturity of the guy she fell in love with, but that's balanced against this higher need to have him get his shit together and be a man.
(4) Alexander Stubb, Finland’s boyish-looking conservative prime minister, agreed on the need to keep things calm.
(5) You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile , his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.
(6) Fox is still as boyishly handsome as he was when he appeared in Back to the Future at the age of 24, and the voice is the same one that once begged Doc Brown to return him to 1985.
(7) What never disappeared was the almost boyish enthusiasm he brought to writing and making music Yet every so often Maxwell Davies could still produce a work that was startlingly effective, and which in its own way carried as much impact as any of the earlier scores.
(8) I couldn’t even get close.” Sandi Toksvig The presenter who quit Radio 4’s The News Quiz to launch her own political party might be an offbeat choice – but she could help balance Evans’ boyishness.
(9) He's wonderfully boyish and can be charming – when he flashes a smile, everybody melts.
(10) People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn't show it.
(11) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
(12) But it seemed companies didn't take too kindly to a gay Indian girl with a penchant for dressing boyishly.
(13) In Trump, we have a major presidential candidate who doesn’t just parse words, conceal facts, or shade the truth, but constantly tells big blatant lies .” In person Mikkelson, 56, is boyish, with a toothy smile and shy demeanour.
(14) When Lowther asked what was the matter, the answer was: "It's boyish."
(15) Marty has an apple-cheeked girlfriend (Claudia Wells), is a boyishly good-looking dude, but he comes from duff stock: mum Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic and dad George (Crispin Glover) is a weed, perpetually bullied by his former high-school tormentor, now boss, Biff (Thomas Wilson).
(16) If I had some other job, I could spend time with my children, relax, go to the market.” It is mid-afternoon and Singh, with a round face and boyish sweetness in his eyes, has not been home since last night; grey stubble covers his cheeks and chin.
(17) At 43, he still looked boyish, with his questioning eyes, a thatch of hair and diffident mumbles.
(18) What never disappeared, either, was the almost boyish enthusiasm Maxwell Davies brought to writing and making music, and to his involvement with those performing it.
(19) Both men and women thought him good-looking, and he retained a boyish air.
(20) Such foes were baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship: before he had a London flat of his own, Waugh used to stay with his great friend Paul Foot.