Girlishly

Rather than address any of them the merits, you fixated on one gratuitous use of "girlishly," as if to imply that the article was about about. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

When the drugged woman regresses back to childhood, becoming girlishly compliant once more, it seems good at first. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

Ard-siúr put up a restraining hand while she finished her thought, her pen scribbling across the page, her lip caught girlishly between her teeth as she worked. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Bianca is extremely girlishly gremlin-like in this get-up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ferocious air about her had dissipated, and she was coquettishly giggling and girlishly fluttering her eyelashes. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

He was a tall, skinny boy with butterscotch-colored skin and long black braids that curled girlishly against his shoulders. ❋ Dia Reeves (2011)

He appears on American Bandstand, squeaking and spinning in gold Lycra leggings and a lilac ladies matador jacket, girlishly singing about shagging women until their ears drop off, brimming with strut, until the music finishes and host Dick Clarke asks him a simple question and Prince is struck mute. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mother giggled girlishly when we rode in the rickshaw and slowly was "cottoning" to Harry. ❋ Carole Mallory (2011)

Margene, who was often portrayed as girlishly naive, seemed an odd choice to pursue a life of service. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"A queer house," Mrs. Hale laughed girlishly and contentedly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes even within the course of a single song she could be defiant and vulnerable, ecstatic and melancholy, serious and girlishly whimsical, seductive and spiritual. ❋ Unknown (2010)