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Unfeminine

adjective
1.
Not suitable for a woman.






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"Unfeminine" Quotes from Famous Books



... of power does indeed render her cool, collected, and firm, but never a whit unfeminine: her smooth command both of herself and of the matter she goes about rather heightens our sense of her modesty than otherwise: so that the impression we take from her is, that these high mental prerogatives are of no sex; that they properly belong ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... the winter. They work all day at the severest agricultural labor, wielding a heavy, clumsy hoe, digging potatoes, grubbing up stones from the soil, stooping on the ground in weeding, and compelled even to the unfeminine and offensive employment of spreading manure. For a day's work at what men alone should be required to do, they receive but a shilling! Then, worn out with fatigue, having eaten little more than the crust they brought with them,—for what more can be afforded by one who earns only a shilling a day?—they ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various



Words linked to "Unfeminine" :   unwomanly



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