girlishness

Yet here it was a sort of girlishness in her that appealed to him.

At three and twenty, she no longer held a hint of girlishness.

But there is evidence of an uncertain girlishness behind the bravado.

He oughtn't to be interested in my girlishness now.

The girlishness of the corps was dismaying rather than charming.

The girlishness of her first name, short for Melissa, seems a sardonic joke.

She managed the girlishness and madness of the first act very persuasively.

For all her girlishness, Wykla was anything but weak.

She looked like a charming boy without having lost her girlishness; she was their friend and ally.

She saw that many women, with the best intentions, make a mistake of carrying too much girlishness into womanhood.

Belinda stayed the night in her old room, its girlishness both a haven and a restriction.

Ms. Margolin may have the look of a private school mother, but she also has a girlishness that can be surprising.

But it seemed shy of the girlishness that might have lightened her downtown rage.

She wrote well, but a pleasant girlishness remained.

There is none of that fake girlishness that young women employ in California.

Doris was so overcome with girlishness she actually giggled.

Yet there's a girlishness about this Ellida that robs her of mystery.

In a single glance, he noticed for the first time that there was no longer any hint of girlishness in her face or form.

She seemed stronger, deeper, purged of the last of her girlishness.

Swift is still unmistakably girlish, and it's hard to know where that girlishness can go.

Her tone is a curious blend of girlishness and old-fashioned literary starchiness.

She giggled, bringing an unlikely girlishness to her demeanor.

Buccari asked with affected girlishness, and everyone laughed.

But is girlishness necessarily restricted to girls?

He felt depressed; somehow, despite her girlishness, her inexperience, she was controlling the conversation.