unfeminine

Example Sentences

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Ms Bhagwandas said younger generations faced less stigma than previous generations, when body hair was often labelled "masculine" or "unfeminine".

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Women began working in fields once thought too dangerous or unfeminine: manufacturing, textiles, even science and medicine.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2022

Alternately, they go the Buffy the Vampire Slayer route, showing their vulnerability by agonizing about whether their strength makes them abnormal or unfeminine.

From The Verge • Aug. 14, 2019

The opera by the English suffragist and composer Dame Ethel Smyth, whose music was deemed unfeminine in her lifetime, tells the story of the religious residents of a Cornish fishing village who plunder ships.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2015

She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver