How To Use Unwomanly In A Sentence
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She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
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Less concerned with the standing of Belle Cora than with the legitimacy of the vigilantes' supporters, however, Gertrude accused the pro-vigilante women of being unchristian, uncharitable, and unwomanly.
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Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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But having castigated male behavior, she drew back from such unwomanly outrage.
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She was inclined to believe her, what with their unwomanly behavior in his presence.
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So the sort of events that were acceptable for women were things like croquet and tennis, because they wouldn't sweat and get terribly hot and look unwomanly.
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He uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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She was an independently minded sister of a convent in Mexico, who drew criticism from the ecclesiastical hierarchy for the supposedly unwomanly nature of her celebrated poetry.
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She was sharp-witted and sharper-tongued, able to skewer an idea or an opponent, a most unwomanly trait he found utterly exciting.
PAINT THE WIND
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He thought it was such an unwomanly, tomboy thing.
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She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
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Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life.
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She points out that early 20th-century African American writers felt that repudiating accusations of unmanly and unwomanly sexual behavior ‘was crucial to black people's changing their subjugated social status’.
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In the other beating scenes, unwomanly behavior - both Orlean's and his mother's physical attacks against Baptiste - contributes to the hero's loss of self-control.
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She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
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She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
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You don't think that's unwomanly of me, do you?
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Editors nowadays were often surprised in their sanctums by committees of three from some pestiferous unwomanly club or other, and they had not come, alackaday, to have their handkerchiefs picked up with courtly speeches, graced with an apt quotation from "Maud.
V. V.'s Eyes
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There's a huge underlying feeling/history in a lot of cultures that to be intellectually sharp and independent is somehow unwomanly.
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The pursuit of education and a career is secondary and may even be perceived as ‘un-Greek’ or unwomanly.
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the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly
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She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
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Not that she is unwomanly.
Times, Sunday Times
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So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
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I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
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However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
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Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne
The Decameron
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Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.