(a.) Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I tell her of course it is, she looks girlishly relieved, like a fifth former who's been let off homework.
(2) Northanger Abbey is a jeu d'esprit, in which vivid girlish affection is turned to something deeper by a teasing lover, Henry Tilney.
(3) He could throw the ball further than anyone his father had seen, but was mildly frustrated when his sister, Victoria, 23, did not share his passion – teasingly calling her "feeble Phoebie" for her girlish attempts to do the same.
(4) She is physically charismatic, and has a way at 50 of seeming both maternal and girlish - a fast-talking New Yorker, yet yoga-calm.
(5) Throughout my 20s, my daily style could be described as “cute girlish dress, ideally with a collar, black tights, whatever the weather”.
(6) Liking the Mitfords, I realised, was seen as something girlish, shallow and immature, like having an over-developed fondness for ponies, or wanting to be a ballerina.
(7) Changeability, I think, is seen as girlish, or something, which is ridiculous.
(8) That pink, glittery girlishness also defines the "reality" show, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, which started in 2005 and ran for six series, providing a sanitised look at life for Hefner's many girlfriends.
(9) Each model had her hair brushed smoothly into a girlish half-ponytail, secured with a simple gold hoop clip – a detail that recurred on the fastenings of the handbags, which were more structured versions of the bucket-shaped bags popular on the front row.
(10) What gives the thing its horror, queerly enough, is the girlishness.
(11) Set up as a giant chess game, it showcased a wide range of ideas, from girlish Edwardian tailored sailor jackets to 18th-century flower-embroidered jackets over candy-striped puffball skirts.
(12) A sudden release, into girlish, almost giddy fandom.
(13) She is nearly 50, but there is something girlish about her still – the angular kind of girl who will run through fields barefoot, who thinks nothing of getting her hands dirty (Lucas's fingers are stubby, workman-like); a grownup, slightly more masculine version of Sissy Spacek in Terrence Malick's Badlands.
(14) He was no intellectual but he discovered in the great roles some element others had not detected: his Macbeth revealed the character's dark irony, his Coriolanus uncovered a faintly girlish shyness inside the military hero and, as Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Olivier found a sexual vanity that led him to check his appearance in the mirror before explaining deforestation to the captivating Elena.
(15) After last season's short, pastel, girlish collection this was a radical turnaround for Kane, but his is a customer with a real love of fashion.
(16) He wrote to Gertrude Thomson, an artist who was sketching girlish fairies and nymphs, "I confess I do not admire naked boys in pictures.
(17) Girlishness is a national obsession – Japan did not ban possession of child pornography until 2014 – and its most popular female icon, Hello Kitty, doesn’t have a mouth.
(18) Listening to his hesitant speaking voice, and looking at that slight, fragile body, the beautiful clothes, the girlish bone structure, you’d imagine him having a singing voice as light as chiffon, a mere wisp of a thing.
(19) Its door release mechanism being somewhat temperamental, when I ring her bell one dank morning in May, she must skip downstairs to greet me – something she does barefoot, the skirt of her primrose broderie anglaise dress gathered girlishly in her hands.
(20) Contrary to his imposing, weather-beaten appearance, he delivers songs in keening, vulnerable, almost girlish tones: listening to him, you instantly hear that quintessentially American quality known as 'The High Lonesome'.
Girly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Avid, Boticca.com is a fashion website, which is about as girly as it gets, but you've come at it from a hard engineering background, haven't you?
(2) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(3) When I was little, I was a really girly girl who didn't like to wear trousers.
(4) The glucose infusion rate (GIR, mg.kg-1.min-1) as an index of insulin sensitivity was assessed by the euglycemic insulin clamp technique 1 (1h-post-Ex group), 3 (3h-post-Ex), 6 (6h-post-Ex) and 24 hours after exercise (24h-post-Ex), n = 8 in each group.
(5) Two of these (GIR-208 and GIR-301) abrogated all binding of radioligand to either intact placental membranes or soluble, purified IFN-gamma R. Three others (GIR-72, 76 and 94) showed moderate blocking activity (65, 59, and 49%, respectively) whereas the remaining five (GIR-57, 67, 83, 109, and 153) blocked binding to a low but significant extent (20 to 40%).
(6) The role of alpha-adrenoceptors in the regulation of glucose-induced insulin release (GIR) was investigated in islets of normal and neonatally streptozotocin-injected non-insulin-dependent diabetic rats (STZ).
(7) Patient response was assessed by global improvement rating (GIR) based on changes in seizure frequency, EEG findings, and nonparoxysmal clinical manifestations.
(8) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
(9) We conclude that intrapancreatic GIR nerves also occur in the mouse and the rat.
(10) But they said, 'Vic, filming the top of the head of a young person who just wants to get on with her work and stop for occasional girly chats with her friends just isn't interesting.'"
(11) The glucose infusion rate (GIR) in the hyperglycemic clamp technique was higher (P less than .05).
(12) I went from being a girly swot to having the time of my life."
(13) "In fact, Greg will be away overnight so Gaia and I will be able to have a girly evening together.
(14) Blood glucose levels and glucose infusion rates (GIR) were continuously monitored, and glucose turnover was estimated using a [3H]glucose infusion.
(15) We report here the sequence of one of these cDNA clones (clone 4.2), renamed here as glucocorticoid-induced receptor (GIR), which encodes a potential new member of the family of receptors that couple to G-proteins.
(16) Glucose infusion rates (GIR) increased during insulin infusion but were not different between groups at any insulin infusion rate.
(17) Net increase in AIR, glucose disappearance rate after glucose pulse, and GIR were significantly and positively correlated to the net increase in erythrocyte magnesium content calculated after chronic magnesium supplementation to diet.
(18) GIR of DWA2114R by the serial administration was higher than that of CBDCA at the doses to induce the same toxicity which was estimated by body weight loss.
(19) In his video “Experimenting ” he splits his face in two with eyeliner, using “pretty pink Barbie blush” on the right – a “girly-girl look”, and gothic black lips and purple eyes on the left, to talk about the assumptions people will make based on your appearance.
(20) Any colour is better than pink, but these robust choices hardly strike one as girly.