unwomanlike

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ womanlike.

Adjective

unwomanlike (comparative more unwomanlike, superlative most unwomanlike)

  1. Not womanlike; not befitting a woman.
    • 1845, The Quarterly Review, volume 76, page 118:
      Madame Calderon's description of a bull-fight in the country is equally spirited and unwomanlike. Even the little pity vouchsafed has the air of being thrown in for decency's sake.
    • 2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, page 42:
      In 7.69, Martial portrays Theophila, the “god-loving” intellectual and fiancée of the Roman Canius, as even more Atticized than Epicurus and the Stoics, even more unwomanlike in her tastes than the poets Sappho and Panaetis.