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unfeminine

adjective as in mannish

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A woman with facial hair was seen by some people not as masculine or unfeminine, but as an abomination.

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If women demonstrate the type of leadership typically praised in men — ambitious, swaggering, domineering — they are seen as unfeminine, unlikable, and even illegitimate leaders.

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

Her muscle mass is defiantly unfeminine but only because our idea of this gendered notion has always been too narrow and confining.

The vitriol spewed by the novel’s antagonists, who want us to believe that women’s ambition and hunger for greatness are unfeminine, still sounds like today.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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