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Befitting or characteristic of a young boy.
boylike
schoolboyish
young
immature
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boylike
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boylike
schoolboyish
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boylike
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1
They had all accompanied his travels, and
boylike
he valued them immensely.
2
Harvey,
boylike
,
was a little embarrassed, but he did not object, however.
3
He was confused and,
boylike
,
tried to laugh off my praises.
4
But,
boylike
,
they were flying kites, and letting their huge-horned charges herd themselves.
5
At times she had a
boylike
unconcern of sex; again, a spirit wholly feminine.
1
Bernal makes a less bearish and
schoolboyish
impression than Haldane.
2
Kathleen, however, was much taken by their
schoolboyish
ways.
3
This crude medieval psychology of heart and brain-Shakespearwould have called it liver and wits-isreally
schoolboyish
.
4
It is jolly hair,
schoolboyish
hair, hair that apparently refuses to be anything other than it is.
5
During this stay in Paris Oscar read enormously and his French, which had been
schoolboyish
,
became quite good.
1
Certainly the natural,
boyish
side was more in evidence on the surface.
2
His doings in the past seemed just the outcome of
boyish
spirits.
3
He only thought of the young, almost
boyish
,
promise in the lines:
4
Scratched in his
boyish
hand on the first page were these lines:
5
Once in the fresh air again he promptly recovered his
boyish
spirits.
6
The
boyish
note she liked to hear sounded suddenly in his voice.
7
It was a big
boyish
figure, cake-walking in the little Wigwam kitchen.
8
Anita, in her
boyish
black garb; Venza, with a flowing white Venus-robe.
9
None could surpass him in running, leaping, swimming and in
boyish
sports.
10
Suddenly Sergio's boisterous and
boyish
enthusiasm wasn't viewed as quite so charming.
11
And then the
boyish
ideal of courage is a very incomplete one.
12
Such unfairness appeared to my
boyish
mind as criminal in the extreme.
13
Henceforth it had a part in every invention of my
boyish
imagination.
14
There was something very
boyish
and happy-go-lucky in his attitude and manner.
15
He held the box securely in his arms, smiling his
boyish
smile.
16
One was a young man with a chubby,
boyish
look about him.
boyish
boyish face
almost boyish
boyish voice
boyish smile
boyish laugh