Crossword clues for boyishly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boyishly \Boy"ish*ly\, adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy.
Wiktionary
adv. In a boyish manner.
WordNet
adv. like a boy; "he smiled boyishly at his fiancee" [syn: boylike]
Usage examples of "boyishly".
An unassured, sensibly dressed girl with her black hair clipped boyishly short.
His bow was jerky, unpracticed, and he flushed boyishly, yanked out of the fascinating world of men to which he had so recently been admitted, by the arrival of a woman his senior in years.
Harlan repeated, laughing boyishly as he lunged for the trailing line and I grabbed the swinging tiller.
Before Merana could ask again, the door opened and Bera and Kiruna were herded in by Corele Hovian, a boyishly slim Yellow with thick black eyebrows and a mass of raven hair that gave her something of a wild appearance no matter how neatly she dressed, and she always dressed for a country dance, with masses of embroidery on her sleeves and bodice and up the sides of her skirts.
And just then, leaning over beside her in freshman composition, he had been boyishly vulnerable.
He was so boyishly pleased with Honshu's performance-as if it were all his doing-that she couldn't resist rumpling his thick hair.
My wife and son noticed it as much as I, and we all ceased gradually to call on her - for which, Edward admitted in one of his boyishly tactless moments, she was unmitigatedly grateful.