womanish

Example Sentences

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This proposed title and its variations were to her mind, "cheesy, little womanish, cute, amateurish."

From Salon

Two grisly drawings here depict a later episode of the Horatii story: a brother murders a sister to punish her womanish grief.

From New York Times

These women and their womanish ways need to be reined in.

From New York Times

Too long America has been weak and womanish and tried to settle things with words.

From Washington Post

It is Anna whose florid, overheated jealousy, fed on fantasies of Vronsky’s infidelity, dooms her to the womanish “lesser states” that Kitamura’s narrator so dreads.

From The New Yorker