unmasculine

Example Sentences

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But I think there’s definitely uniqueness in each and every one of us within that perspective of masculinity versus what feels unmasculine.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2019

But a man with pale skin was considered unmasculine: bronzed skin was associated with the heroes who fought on battlefields and competed as athletes, naked, in amphitheatres.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

The idea that veganism is unmasculine, for example, has largely been debunked.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

In his 1926 biography, the poet Carl Sandburg wrote that the President and Speed possessed "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets"--a lyrical though curious phrase that seems to suggest something unmasculine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not long ago such affectation would have appealed to his sturdy, straightforward mind of a detective as trivial, possibly unmasculine.

From The Gray Mask by Camp, Wadsworth