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Recent Examples of gamine
In response, Sarah’s emotional state swings between consternation and compulsion as her solitary writer’s retreat morphs into a poolside war of wills between stuffy dame and slightly unhinged French gamine.
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Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, Footwear News, 26 May 2025
Then, in the 1950s, actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Jean Seberg, trashed Hollywood’s bombshell curls (a popular look among other actresses) for the gamine cut.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 6 May 2025
The gamine Ferran has an extraordinary feral, changeling quality.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
In 1954, newcomer Audrey Hepburn won for her gamine role as royalty playing hooky in Roman Holiday, while the 1955 awards honored an entirely different type of performance, Method actress Eva Marie Saint's hyperrealistic turn in On the Waterfront.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
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Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo, Footwear News, 26 May 2025
Then, in the 1950s, actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Jean Seberg, trashed Hollywood’s bombshell curls (a popular look among other actresses) for the gamine cut.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 6 May 2025
The gamine Ferran has an extraordinary feral, changeling quality.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
In 1954, newcomer Audrey Hepburn won for her gamine role as royalty playing hooky in Roman Holiday, while the 1955 awards honored an entirely different type of performance, Method actress Eva Marie Saint's hyperrealistic turn in On the Waterfront.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamine
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His socialite wife, Margo (Malin Akerman), quickly takes Sophie under her wing, introducing the wide-eyed waif to her gaggle of girlfriends, including Jill (Katie Lowes), the wife of the megachurch’s reverend, and Callie (Jaime Ray Newman), the sheriff’s wife.—
Melissa Locker,
Time,
23 July 2025
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Meanwhile, Bronte the bookstore waif is uncovering the human aquarium.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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Elba’s pixie cut hair was coiffed by James Catalano, featuring her baby bangs framing her face.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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The French cast is flawless, as is Zoey Deutch in a pixie cut as Jean Seberg.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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According to the team, an increase in the presence of sunflower sea stars, either natural or artificial, may help kelp forests by deterring urchins, without requiring divers manually remove urchins.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
30 July 2025
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Piss off the street urchins by giving them your phone!—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
7 June 2025
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Yoo wears round wire-frame glasses and sweeps his dark hair back; Schat describes herself as a tomboy and keeps her hair in a pixie cut.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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The artist’s ability to straddle the line between tomboy inclinations and ultra-glam moments is what has always attracted me to her style.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
20 Aug. 2025
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Rudeness is of course still frowned upon, and sometimes hoydens behaved in ways that are rude by today’s standards – a girl who pushed another out of her seat at school was a hoyden in 1865.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 May 2018
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The Bulls jumped into my top 25 after a season-opening romp against Boise State in Week 1, but most of the rest of the country was cautious.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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In this laugh-a-minute romp, Keke Palmer and SZA star as two down-on-their-luck besties and roommates who discover (much too late) that one of their boyfriends squandered their rent money.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamine. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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