English

Adverb

girlishly ‎(comparative more girlishly, superlative most girlishly)

1. In a girlish manner.
   • 1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Chapter 12,

     Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."

   • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, World So Wide, Chapter 10,

     "What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […] "