Not so feminine

Usage examples of tomboyish.

The woman beside him was a short tomboyish detective from the sex unit: Carolyn Rie, all freckles and braids and teeth.

As he had found out repeatedly since their marriage, cute little tomboyish Jon had a mind and will that was hers alone.

Sue Tucker was bi, on the butch side, though cutely tomboyish to some male eyes.

Whenever she gestured in the direction of vexation, the act automatically endowed itself with a glow of tomboyish pathos, much too adorable to be taken seriously.

As the last of her tomboyish toughness drained from her face, she looked plain old nervous, and he was aching for her, his jeans feeling suddenly tight with what all he wanted to give.

Lynn on his doorstep, a pretty, tomboyish, bright-faced young lady with two suitcases, a tennis racket, and trembling lips that were trying hard to be brave and to hide the shock of it all.

With her short dark hair, she was appealing in a tomboyish sort of waylong limbed and athletic.

Scylax came as Minerva, and contrived to make that stern, tomboyish goddess look like an old and over-made-up whore.

He glanced down at her, surprised again to find himself looking at a beautiful young woman instead of the tomboyish schoolgirl he always seemed to think her.

But there was also something naive and tomboyish about her, emphasized by the short, careless cut of her dirty-blond hair.

The haughtiness of the stance she took before him coupled with her tattered, tomboyish clothing struck him as being so incongruous that a smile raised his lips.

Her tomboyish nature had disturbed her invalid mother, who said that Christabel should be learning how to dress and set proper place settings instead of throwing calves for branding and grooming the horses in the rickety stable.

She was younger, too, with a tomboyish air, but not even faded jeans, a worn sweatshirt and baseball cap could hide her stunning dark eyes, full lips and luxuriously thick, red-touched brown hair.

She could not believe the reckless, tomboyish girl she had always been was going to become a mother.

Yes, and hello again to Bernardette Mayfair, whom she'd met briefly at the funeral, and to the beautiful little red-haired girl with the hair ribbon, who was named Mona Mayfair, daughter of CeeCee, yes, and the tomboyish Jennifer Mayfair, Mona's best friend and fourth cousin, yes, met you before, of course.