unwomanlike

comparative more unwomanlike · superlative most unwomanlike

1. Not womanlike; not befitting a woman.

   Madame Calderon's description of a bull-fight in the country is equally spirited and unwomanlike. Even the little pity vouchsafed has the air of being thrown in for decency's sake.

   1845, The Quarterly Review, volume 76, page 118

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   In 7.69, Martial portrays Theophila, the “god-loving” intellectual and fiancée of the Roman Canius, as even more Atticized than Epicurus and the Stoics, even more unwomanlike in her tastes than the poets Sappho and Panaetis.

   2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, page 42