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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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
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Depp goes beyond Ellen’s virginal purity to complicate our understanding of this character’s relationship to darkness — how she is at once disturbed by and deeply intimate with it.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Dec. 2024
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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What begins as an adventure fueled by youthful curiosity soon becomes a defining experience that tests their understanding of the world around them.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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The music video opts for an effortlessly fun and youthful feel, trading in glossy, big sets for scenic mountain views.—
Nicole Fell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Geller said sharing her home with a younger generation has brought life to her house.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Townsend recalled how he and Moses were both locked up in a high-security module designated for young Black men whom law enforcement had labeled as Bloods.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 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 27 Feb. 2025.
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