boyish
adjective
of or befitting a boy; engagingly youthful or innocent.
boyishness
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a word derived from
boyish.
Example Sentences
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There was a boyishness to him that seemed to excuse his characters’ worst behavior, on “Friends” and in later roles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Instead, a silky Jonathan Groff now prowls around menacingly, his boyishness having been nicely weaponized for his role as a sly trickster.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Roberts, throughout the day, had lost his own famous bloom of boyishness till he looked more and more like his predecessor William Rehnquist.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2020
Johnson’s imprudence has too often been explained or excused as a kind of perpetual boyishness.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2019
He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother’s, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother’s was of lingering boyishness.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
