How To Use Womanish In A Sentence
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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
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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
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We were neither of us womanish, and despite his proclivity to wear clothes dangerously close to the dandy set he was a hard sportsman.
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‘And different gender folks too,’ shouts one womanish looking man in a cutoff shirt.
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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
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Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness.
Marcella
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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
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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.
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Nor am I the man to put up with such womanish humoursomeness.
Janice Meredith
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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
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Tabby cats -- the soft, fattish kind, without any manlike qualities, that seemed to be by far the greater proportion of all the men one saw about in buses and in the streets and met in business; tabby cats -- sloppy, old-womanish creatures.
This Freedom
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Ease, music, money-making, the affairs of his harem and the bringing-up of his children, are his chief interests, and his plump pale face with long-lashed hazel eyes, his curling beard and fat womanish hands, recall the portly potentates of
In Morocco
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womanish tears
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Cesario, of course, looks like a very womanish man, since he is actually a woman.
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The elders and rulers of the village met to determine the punishment for such insurrection, and Okonkwo was disgusted to see that the men of Mbanta were so womanish that they would not declare war against the Christians.
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The Africans, on the other hand, let their hair go nappy-kink, and some came to class in their national costumes, the little box hats and long robes of bright colors looking both solemn and womanish.
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In Storr's catalogue essay, we hear precursors of such comments across 18 centuries from writers who condemned decadent foreign influences, womanish decoration and blatant artificiality.
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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)
Crime and Punishment
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‘Believe it or not, I was once your age,’ a portly store manager chimed as he passed our womanish giggle-fest.
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Jumah is the best abused man of the party, because he has old-womanish ways with him, yet in his old-womanish ways he is disposed to do the best he can for me, though he will not carry a pound in weight without groaning terribly at his hard fate.
How I Found Livingstone
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He may not always be ‘mannish’; in fact, he may be downright womanish (the sting of this repeated accusation in the Western is that it is usually true), but he will be doing what a man does.
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I'll accept that, if you insist on being old-womanish.
Mexico
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We must stop when we cannot go any further, and all this old-womanish cackle on the subject, the everlasting trying to prove what is already said to be proved -- the looking for the square in space after laying it down as a law that only the circle exists -- is a curious way of showing us how to control the 'exuberance of our own verbosity.'
Ideala
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The companionship of Dale's bright youth would keep her from getting old-womanish if anything could.
The Bat
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Eh! th 'art a queer, old-womanish thing," she said.
The Secret Garden
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In early vase-painting, Greek men are depicted ‘black-figure’, symbolic of their darker skin, while women (and womanish men) are shown pale and white.
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People would assume you were womanish or weak or something, and they would try to cow you down, and to abuse you.
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And having thought upon it a hundred and five times, I know not what else to determine therein, save only that in the devising, hammering, forging, and composing of the woman she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful consortship and sociable delectation of the man, than to the perfection and accomplishment of the individual womanishness or muliebrity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It would destroy all my pre-conceived notions of man's supremacy of the natural status accorded to him, and I should opt to think that the men who listened were more womanish than the preacher.
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Have you seen that womanish man? He's a queen.
