womanish

How To Use womanish In A Sentence

• If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
• Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that perhaps for some reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies) I should do better to go on living by myself, apart, than with them, after the wedding. Chapter III. Part I
• We were neither of us womanish, and despite his proclivity to wear clothes dangerously close to the dandy set he was a hard sportsman.
• ‘And different gender folks too,’ shouts one womanish looking man in a cutoff shirt.
• Lamb associates with cod's head: nor has it on the other hand that fine falling off flakiness, that obsequious peeling off (as it were like a sea onion) which endears your cods head & shoulders to some appetites, that manly firmness combined with a sort of womanish coming-in-pieces which the same cods head Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
• Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness. Marcella
• So it was a case of three men against the one, about as womanish a trick as the judge had ever heard of. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
• This was the moment we had all been waiting for, and yet most of us - including myself and several other men - screamed and spilled our drinks in womanish fright.
• Nor am I the man to put up with such womanish humoursomeness. Janice Meredith
• He stopped within a couple of feet of her, until he could catch the scent of her perfume, something floral and old-womanish. The Mesa Conspiracy