school-boyish

Updated: June 4, 2025

Yours very truly, Charles Westmacott." The whole was written in a large, loose-jointed, and school-boyish hand, very thin on the up strokes and thick on the down, as though care and pains had gone to the fashioning of it.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Beyond the City

Then you blurted it all out in, as I could not help thinking as I listened, as school-boyish and abashed a way as if you had well, as if you had not been a consummate man of the world, rather noted for your aplomb.

- Not Pretty, but Precious