mannish

How To Use mannish In A Sentence

• Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
• Charlotte Gainsbourg, who carries so well the mannish shirt mantle passed down by her mother Jane Birkin, works the look perfectly.
• Holding her hand was some brunette dressed in a mannish chalk-stripe suit and a matching pillbox hat with a veil as fine as smoke. Asimov's Science Fiction
• There was something wild and unmannish in his smile, that took me by the throat; only death and love know or have ever seen it. St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
• She was very mannish, and what we were taught was that those masculine traits were evil - and that her evil was somehow infectious.
• And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel. Swann's Way
• She shook hands in a mannish way, her grip dry and firm.
• The therapist leaned over and tied a loose lace of her mannish Oxfords. SORT OF RICH
• In Arzner's subtly altered version, Rosalind Russell's obsessive Harriet is a chilling yet mesmerising figure, and in low-angle shots and mannish attire, looms as majestic and vengeful as a modern-day Medea.
• I expect Kylie would look quite fetching in any part of the collection, however, particularly in comparison with some mannish catwalk models.