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Another word for womanish

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Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of women

    See also:

    gender

  2. Having qualities more appropriate to women than to men

    See also:

    gender

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Another word for womanish

Modifier
  1. See also:

    female

    weak

    feminine

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Sentence Examples

  • womanish ways.

  • Hedda is a woman who wishes to thrust aside all womanish ways.

  • Ivanushka, sipping out of her saucer, looked with sly womanish eyes from under her brows at the young men.

  • Though she concealed from him her intention of keeping him under her wing, Petya guessed her designs, and instinctively fearing that he might give way to emotion when with her--might "become womanish" as he termed it to himself--he treated her coldly, avoided her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natasha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness, almost lover-like.

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