womanly

Example Sentences

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It's first edition began with an explanation that its objective was to cover "the whole field of womanly action".

From BBC

Halili and Reitsma don't wear aprons or pose with backyard chickens, but their content still belongs to the same social media universe as "tradwife" podcasts and similar propaganda for womanly submission.

From Salon

This strict minister paterfamilias disapproved of his violist son, and in the wake of loss, Davis finds solace in music and womanly identity, slowly healing from estrangement.

From Los Angeles Times

Sally Kohlstedt: And so she very well might have been hesitant to present the material herself because that wouldn't have been womanly.

From Scientific American

“Sinead will forever be a figure of womanly defiance, for a country that never liked women,” she said.

From New York Times