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But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had always been liberally furnished with pocket-money, for which, in his companionless state and Spartan habits, he had a singular and unboyish contempt.

From A Waif of the Plains by Harte, Bret

He ran a good part of the way home and burst into the house with a slam, utterly unlike his usual quiet, unboyish steadiness.

From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré

Roger spoke with an unboyish sadness in his voice.

From The Forbidden Trail by Morrow, Honoré

If he had had a little fear that he would feel diffident and unboyish among lads of his own age, it vanished at the first contact.

From Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Emerson, Alice B.