Unwomanly
[,ʌn'wumәnli]
Definition
(adj.) not womanly; 'the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly' .
Edited by Clio--From WordNet
Examples
- There, now I have been unwomanly, I suppose. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It troubled her to remember that now, she wished she could take it back, it sounded so unwomanly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But hard labour and learned professions, they say, make women masculine, coarse, unwomanly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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