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sissyish

ADJECTIVE
  1. having unsuitable feminine qualities

How To Use sissyish In A Sentence

  • Bella knew some little girls in the house, but in a ceremonious way; Tom had formed no friendships among the boys at school such as he had left in Boston; as nearly as he could explain, the New York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast. Complete March Family Trilogy
  • But at least two of the other portraits seem positively sissyish. NYT > Home Page
  • 60A: Far from macho (sissyish) - your made-up word of the day. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
  • Edith B, I just checked a dictionary and found three derivative words listed below "sissy": the noun sissiness and the adjectives sissified and sissyish. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
  • Because one look at how the man plays the game is sufficient to destroy that old myth that gay men are uniformly effeminate, sissyish and, above all, instantly recognisable. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • For him, all that dancing was a sissyish waste of calories.
  • Their style was meant to symbolize tough, patriotic, working-class attitudes in contrast to the supposedly sissyish, pacifist, middle-class views of the hippies.
  • While he was fond of the theatre, he was wary of music as bordering on the sissyish.
  • Edith B, I just checked a dictionary and found three derivative words listed below "sissy": the noun sissiness and the adjectives sissified and sissyish. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
  • York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast. A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4
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