missish

How to use missish in a sentence

• Lil, who is mighty missish, says Tom Tit has too good taste to like such common music but I just know he will like it.

  The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell Speed

• And I was so proud of my own strength; so sure that I should never be missish, and spoony, and sentimental!

  Framley Parsonage | Anthony Trollope

• You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.

  Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen

• There was a maudlin, missish, namby-mamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.

  The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony Trollope

• But he should not leave her till he had acquitted her of the vile, missish crime of flirting with another because he was absent.

  The Bertrams | Anthony Trollope