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womanish
[woom-uh-nish]
adjective
womanlike or feminine.
weakly feminine; effeminate.
womanish
/ ˈʊəɪʃ /
adjective
having qualities or characteristics regarded as unsuitable to a strong character of either sex, esp a man
characteristic of or suitable for a woman
Other Word Forms
- womanishly adverb
- womanishness noun
- unwomanish adjective
- ˈɴdzԾ adverb
- ˈɴdzԾԱ noun
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Example Sentences
This proposed title and its variations were to her mind, "cheesy, little womanish, cute, amateurish."
Two grisly drawings here depict a later episode of the Horatii story: a brother murders a sister to punish her womanish grief.
With a womanish gesture he lifted a lock of silver hair from his forehead and smoothed it back on his head.
“A small man—dark—with a womanish voice,” said Poirot thoughtfully.
He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard.
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