Example Sentences

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Her grins betray pride in her work and in her own fiendishness, blending her callous coltishness with a midcareer self-assurance.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2019

You could say they make for an exemplary cast of understudies. Acker too often works her mouth into a pained smile-frown, but she radiates some of the lovely gawky coltishness of the young Audrey Hepburn.

From Time • Jun. 7, 2013

"Trim" is as clumsy as "slender"; she had escaped from the trimness of girlhood as wholly as she had gone through its coltishness.

From The Conquest of Canaan by Tarkington, Booth

The whole body stood a thought too high for its breadth, with a hint of coltishness in the thin arms and thick elbow-joints.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

But you are manifestly sincere in your efforts to be all you ought to be and are trying genuinely to overcome your tendencies and to outgrow your coltishness.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas