boyishly


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boy·ish

 (boi′ĭsh)
adj.
Characteristic of or befitting a boy: boyish charm.

boy′ish·ly adv.
boy′ish·ness n.
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Adv.1.boyishly - like a boy; "he smiled boyishly at his fiancee"
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boyishly

[ˈbɔɪɪʃli] advcomme un jeune garçonboy racer njeune conducteur m imprudentboy scout (old-fashioned) nscout m, éclaireur m
the Boy Scouts → les scoutsboy wonder njeune prodige m
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boyishly

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But then, you see, that's all part of the day's work," he wound up boyishly.
He gratefully took the kind hand that had sustained him: he said, simply, almost boyishly, "Thank you, Julian.
"Then there IS a house?" said Jessie, with an alarming frank laugh of relief, that was, however, as frankly reflected in the boyishly appreciative eyes of the young men.
He had burst forth at once with the plain fact, feeling boyishly miserable and without verbal resources.
A thick crop of dusty brown hair was parted boyishly on the side with a lateral wave above the dry, furrowed forehead.
The original plan was to have about 70 friends celebrate with Christian, but with the couple's popularity, the party had over 120 friends who honored the celebrant, looking boyishly continental with his sky-blue blazer, red bowtie partnered with red suspenders and white Bermuda shorts.
His plain-spoken ways have also made him a multi-multimillionaire who makes his Fox predecessor and heretofore unrivaled smirking bully, Bill O'Reilly, seem boyishly pranky.
Boyishly handsome lead actor Dylan O'Brien, above, was seriously injured on set and production shut down for almost a year while he recovered.
Boyishly handsome lead actor Dylan O'Brien was badly injured on the set of the final chapter and production shut down for almost a year to allow him to recover.
However, in works such as Ray, Robot, and Facade, all 2015, hints of her own physique--androgynous, athletic, boyishly dressed--peek through, revealing a struggle to locate a place for the body and identity in abstraction's incessant play of figure and ground.
Sergei Rachmaninoff is a young person's composer, full of sound and fury, his music delighting listeners on Its own boyishly bombastic terms.
Set in 1960, Days of Being Wild focuses on the young and boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the woman who raised him that she is not his real mother.