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Definition of Boyishly
1. Adverb. Like a boy. "He smiled boyishly at his fiancee"
Definition of Boyishly
1. adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy.
Definition of Boyishly
1. Adverb. In a boyish manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boyishly
1. boyish [adv] - See also: boyish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boyishly
Literary usage of Boyishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"Quite different trom tho picture that Adriana had drawn of a young curate fresh
from college, boyishly attempting an extra display of dignity, and boyishly ..."
2. Buchanan's Wife: A Novel by Justus Miles Forman (1906)
"It was rather like a boy, he thought, and he was no longer a boy in any way, but
he was not in the least ashamed of being boyishly eager to see the woman he ..."
3. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
"For though utterly a man in countenance and in his self-possession and incapacity
to be put at a loss, he was still boyishly proud of his wild calling, ..."
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