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boyish /ˈbɔɪɪʃ /adjectiveOf, like, or characteristic of a male child or young man: his boyish charm she looked boyish and defiant...- His firm handshake, welcoming smile and boyish charm were a winning combination.
- He's 34 but looks years younger, and could certainly give lessons in boyish charm.
- His hair is thinning but he has a boyish smile that makes his age impossible to guess.
Synonyms youthful, young, childlike, adolescent, teenage, teenaged, fresh-faced; immature, juvenile, infantile, childish, babyish, callow, green, puerile archaic bread-and-butter Derivativesboyishly adverb ...- His charisma was of the kind that lit up a room as soon as he entered it, boyishly handsome even after his hair began to grey, with movie-star good looks that many women found irresistible.
- A black silk shirt hung open from his shoulders, baring a boyishly smooth and muscular torso for a man who says he's 69 and is alleged by various old spoilers down south to be as much as five years older.
- Sure, you already knew that Ken's funny, smart, insightful, and boyishly handsome, but did you know he can also sing and dance?
boyishness /ˈbɔɪɪʃnəs / noun ...- For all his verbal roughhousing, the 41-year-old exudes a peculiar vulnerability and a boyishness in his taunts.
- It had nothing to do with the usual qualities such men are supposed to possess: vulnerability, say, or boyishness, or even charisma.
- There is something almost childlike about Harper, a gee-whiz boyishness.
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