And yet the whole affair had only been a schoolboyish prank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

He leaned forward and kissed her on the lips, a firm but schoolboyish embrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Gossip]

But it was Hunter's expression, a schoolboyish-pride grin that was most apparent as he left the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - After 11 innings, Selig rules game a tie] Reference

One message says "Berlin last stop", another is signed "Balls from Belgium", and a third the schoolboyish "Hoof Hearted".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

I had taken for granted that he would dissemble, but he had begun upon it with such bluntness, such schoolboyish bluntness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

Then, because Nelson had turned uncharacteristically schoolboyish, I added, I do appreciate your help with the whole thing, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference

Bernhardi were present, or indeed, in the excitement of their schoolboyish imaginations, to remember whether he had postulated any at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartbreak by Craig Raine] Reference

Then the kid came from behind and pushed him and said something schoolboyish like, ‘Do you want to fight?’ and Elliot just looked at him and said, ‘Why?’ like he really wanted to know the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Thirty] Reference

Should you be induced to publish those very schoolboyish verses, print.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

She glanced rapidly over the four pages of straggling writing in the young sailor's bold schoolboyish hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doings of Raffles Haw] Reference

During this stay in Paris Oscar read enormously and his French, which had been schoolboyish, became quite good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]

There are the usual schoolboyish rivalries and fights, in particular involving a nasty individual called Slegge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glyn Severn's Schooldays] Reference

Except for the schoolboyish signature, that was all; but there was a world of importance between the laconic lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose in the Ring] Reference

The humour is very much in the style associated with The Two Ronnies: gentle, playful, and schoolboyish in its love of puns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

This crude medieval psychology of heart and brain -- Shakespear would have called it liver and wits -- is really schoolboyish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny's First Play] Reference

His grey sweater and dirty flannel trousers had a schoolboyish look that contrasted strongly with the clothes of the other men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Died in the Wool]

But there is something a little schoolboyish in it; and I do not know that Balzac has succeeded entirely in eliminating this something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirteen] Reference

This stop-motion animated film has a witty, schoolboyish spark and insouciance that makes it much more like Anderson's live-action films like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

It celebrates recklessness, a nose-thumbing at public bossiness or health & safety dictats, the schoolboyish impulse to shove fingers in sockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eye on Britain] Reference

News of the World's schoolboyish HELLO, WHAT'S ALL THIS EAR? on account of how an angry prisoner was all ears after he got his head stuck in a cell door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It would be schoolboyish to explain at length how well the two great republics, the two winning republics of the ancient world, embody these conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference

Instead of the staid dignity and stolidity of a general, I saw an almost schoolboyish nimbleness; instead of a collar sticking up to his ears, an ordinary light blue necktie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife, and other stories] Reference

As a 16-year-old, she seduced not just a schoolboyish Rishi Kapoor and then a sophisticated superstar, Rajesh Khanna, but also an entire nation of wide-eyed idol-gazers who for the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

“I don’t understand this schoolboyish conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

A smile, pleased and schoolboyish, appeared upon Cousin Alexander’s handsome face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers for the Judge]

Nicky had bold, loopy writing, and he’d used a marker pen that made his scrawl look even more schoolboyish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference

“Oh, well,” he grumbled, feeling rather schoolboyish, “I don’t think a discussion between us is desirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Passage To India]

A vocabulary as natural as his loosely knotted Lavallière neckties, his short, straight, almost schoolboyish coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

A bit too schoolboyish fantasy for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [FANTASY WOMAN • by Wayne Scheer] Reference

A schoolboyish, superficial plagiary of De Foe, Sir James Steuart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference

They made schoolboyish sounds of assent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

He’s merry and schoolboyish as he always was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference