unwomanly

Example Sentences

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Or maybe they thought a male scriptwriter was putting unwomanly words into a female robot’s script.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2021

Personally speaking I’ve never been raped, or had an abortion, or found being female especially painful, but that doesn’t make me unwomanly and it doesn’t stop Emin’s voice resonating for others.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2018

Surely a desire, even in an oral history, for modest factual scaffolding doesn’t make one unwomanly?

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017

So when twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘I meant,’ explained Neville, ‘that the surroundings are so dull and unwomanly, and that Helena can have no suitable friend or society here.’

From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson