beamish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beamish
First recorded in 1520–30; beam (in the sense “ray of light”) + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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At least the songs are sung well: Jones is as beamish as his music sounds; you can see and hear how his Ivan might be the star the show says he is.
From New York Times
That’s my feeling about this show’s beamish collegiality, and it might have been the same, only less painfully, were Hillary Clinton in the White House.
From The New Yorker
How gallantly the "beamish boy" must have dealt the death-stroke to the queer brute as the orchestra sounded the Siegfried and the Dragon motives, and the air all the while redolent with heliotrope.
From Project Gutenberg
Top Step is sorry for him—a creature of another, paler world ... infinitely beneath her bright and beamish boy's.
From Project Gutenberg
But just as she whirled past, Mary saw them, and leaned back to wave her hand and smile her “beamish” smile at the unwitting discoverers of her secret.
From Project Gutenberg
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