missish

• “A girl of seventeen -- a girl with a "missish" name, with a "missish" face as well, soft skin, bright eyes, dark hair, medium height and a certain amount of coquetry in her attire.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873

• “But it seemed stiff and "missish" to refuse -- she must do now as his world did.”

  Beyond

• “missish" to refuse -- she must do now as his world did.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “I bowed, and they inclined their heads and looked at me with that bold, appraising stare which Russian women use - they're not bashful or missish, those ladies.”

  Fictionaut: The Sky Writer

• “Without any of the missish hesitation or nervousness she'd expected would assail her.”

  Hero Come Back

• “There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.”

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

• “Lucy had grown bigger in her eyes while sitting there and talking, and had lost much of that missish want of importance — that lack of social weight — which Lady Lufton in her own opinion had always imputed to her.”

  Framley Parsonage

• “And I was so proud of my own strength; so sure that I should never be missish, and spoony, and sentimental!”

  Framley Parsonage

• “To her mind — even to most other minds — her age and status as an almost-confirmed apeleader freed her from missish considerations of virginity.”

  The Perfect Lover

• “No missish sentiment, no modesty was strong enough to distract her from the sensuous delight of his fingers, the strength of his hands, the pleasure they conjured.”

  The Perfect Lover

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