half-obstinate

Updated: May 16, 2025

It was not the childishness of very youthful years, for she had already reached the mature age of twenty-one; but the half-doubting, half-pouting, half-yielding, half-obstinate, soft, loving, lovable childishness, which gives and exacts caresses, and which, when it is genuine, may exist to an age much beyond that which Clarissa Underwood had reached.

Anthony Trollope - Ralph the Heir