spinsterish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spinsterish
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Seeing Laura’s discomfort with her, Cherry employs her feminine wiles to cause a fracture in Laura and Daniel’s connection.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kate Middleton, Reese Witherspoon, and Joanna Gaines each have pretty distinct style — yet, this one feminine fashion detail spans all of their wardrobes.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The British designer made a stealthy comeback in 2023 with a namesake label hinged on her brand of modern minimalism, womanly allure and uncompromising quality.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).
    Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • At the waist of Deutch’s dress, a statement bow made of metallic silver beading featured, giving the dress a playful, girlish quality.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There’s still a girlish quality to Mishi’s look thanks to the short shorts, which also accentuate the legs that will determine her greatness.
    Oliver Sava, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But yesterday, Rihanna did a sartorial 180, ditching her tomboyish ’fit for a girly, baby pink look.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, these flats come in fun colors such as red and lavender for the ultimate girly-girl travel shoe.
    Rebecca Shinners, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Spinsterish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spinsterish. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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