womanish

Example Sentences

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As twists go, that’s a hackneyed one, given that Murder on the Orient Express did the “small dark man with a womanish voice” thing ages ago.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2018

Spinoza claimed that human reluctance to slaughter animals is “founded rather on vain superstition and womanish pity than on sound reason.”

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

Isabella in Measure for Measure is interesting but, I think, still a victim; she takes a very womanish ethical stance – that of her chastity – to exercise power.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2012

When he first dons the white burnoose of a princely Bedouin, he takes an almost womanish delight in his new finery.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead