as in virginal
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Recent Examples of maidenly
Virgo Virgo is symbolized by the maidenly virgin, which often leads to the misconception that Virgos are prudish and innocent.
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Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Oct. 2017
Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maidenly
Adjective
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Why keep up this fake pretense that each date is somehow brand-new, virginal?—
Anelise Chen,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2025
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Her approach is a clean break from the 19th-century tradition of American landscape art, in which de facto propagandists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole depicted land as radiant and virginal, the birthright of any colonial buccaneer drunk on Manifest Destiny.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Pop stars like Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter conjured girlish elegance in pale gowns with feathers and ruffles.—
The Styles Desk,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Blepharoplasty can deliver a dramatic improvement to both the upper and lower eye areas in slightly less than two hours for a significantly more youthful look.—
Elycia Rubin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Mar. 2025
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In keeping with the youthful energy that fuels punk, Collins said the event will be all-ages to reach the broadest audience, including some of the ones who have grown up to raise a few little punk rockers of their own.—
Charlie Vargas,
Orange County Register,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ultimately, Wagner’s intangibles outweighed finding a younger replacement.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
7 Mar. 2025
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Sam Das, United States, 2024 A young trans woman is chased into a junkyard while being followed home late at night.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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By the water’s edge, her insecure 25-year-old son, Konstantin (Kodi Smit-McPhee), is mounting a post-apocalyptic play in which his enduring love, ingenuous country girl Nina (Emma Corrin), can act.—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2025
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The actors effortlessly entwine the droll and the ingenuous, but as Ulman juggles more characters and more plot angles than in her first movie, there isn’t necessarily more payoff.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Maidenly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maidenly. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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