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mannish

adjective as in suggestive of a man

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Some donned mannish, oversized coats in military greens and browns paired with matching wide-leg trousers, while others covered up with an elegant silk scarf wrapped around the head.

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Gertrude, who worked in Los Alamos’ scientific laboratory, got the FBI’s attention when a childhood neighbor described her as “being very mannish in appearance and not considered to be attractive to men.”

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A girlfriend asked her to de-emphasize her feminine looks by cutting her hair and dressing mannishly.

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Was it her “mannish” short hairstyle, her friendships with younger women and her flouting of “the southern lady’s book of rules and behavior” that turned so many people against Ruth?

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Yet even dressed almost mannishly, I would be noticed.

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