unmasculine

Example Sentences

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But I think there’s definitely uniqueness in each and every one of us within that perspective of masculinity versus what feels unmasculine.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2019

But a man with pale skin was considered unmasculine: bronzed skin was associated with the heroes who fought on battlefields and competed as athletes, naked, in amphitheatres.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

The idea that veganism is unmasculine, for example, has largely been debunked.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

In his 1926 biography, the poet Carl Sandburg wrote that the President and Speed possessed "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets"--a lyrical though curious phrase that seems to suggest something unmasculine.

From Time Magazine Archive

For instance, the aristocrats of the hive, however unmasculine in their ordinary mode of life, are the only males.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 by Various