unwomanly

How To Use unwomanly In A Sentence

• She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
• The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.
• Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
• Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne The Decameron
• However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
• I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
• So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
• Not that she is unwomanly. Times, Sunday Times
• She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
• the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly