womanlike

Example Sentences

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The scientific word for enlarged male breasts is gynecomastia, from the Greek for “womanlike breasts.”

From Washington Post

Her work includes lovely descriptions of the physical realities of being a person, of having a body “soft and porous, receptive of fluid and sticky, womanlike in its oozy sliminess.”

From The New Yorker

I had made trouble enough for myself by jumping womanlike to conclusions, and imagining that the postscript of de Termes' letter to his wife referred to me, whereas it clearly concerned some one else.

From Project Gutenberg

He had possibly suffered a great sorrow, she decided; and, womanlike, longed to know the nature of the tragedy which had spoilt his life.

From Project Gutenberg

It was not sufficient apparently that he had been acquitted of the charge; womanlike, she held him responsible for the life he had taken.

From Project Gutenberg