Womanish

But it gets better: “His movements have been described as womanish — a dainty ladylike way of walking when not assuming a military carriage in public, effeminate gestures of his arms — a peculiar graceless ineptitude reminiscent of of a girl throwing a baseball.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Well, there is something effeminate a about that, something womanish, that is just what I would expect," the German said to the Montreal lawyer. ❋ Unknown (1915)

She seldom schemed, but when she did scheme, her plans showed rather the comprehensive strategy of a general than the small arts called womanish, though she could utter oracles of Delphian ambiguity when she did not choose to be direct. ❋ Unknown (1878)

And to aggravate this judgment, to put an edge upon this misery, it is added in the next words, that women shall come and set them on fire: that is, a womanish and effeminate generation of men (for such were the Babylonians) shall triumph over them. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

We believe that no act so thoroughly womanish, that is, moving under a blind impulse without a thought of consequences, without a concerted succession of steps, and no ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

In other words, the men who rule are being called womanish, or childish. ❋ Unknown (2008)

here is a direct quote from the text his movements have been described as womanish - a dainty ladylike way of walking when not assuming a military carraige in public, EFFEMINATE gesture of his arms — a peculiar gracelessness ineptitude reminiscent of a girl throwing a baseball a long time ago i said the parallels were striking, and there were so many. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cassius gripes that Rome has become "womanish" and mocks Caesar for resembling "a sick girl." ❋ Celia Wren (2010)

The epithet "womanish" could not therefore have had among the Egyptians of his day a derogatory Men's-State signification. ❋ Unknown (1923)

In exceptional cases a reviewer perhaps exclaims upon certain faults as "womanish"; but the cry is too hasty; the faults are those of individuals, in either sex. ❋ Unknown (1890)

He had a well-cut nose, a good chin, and a mouth that meant strength of purpose, though some of his friends laughed at him for a "womanish" curve of the upper lip. ❋ Unknown (1889)

North Carolinian, born and reared among the Cherokee Indians at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains, and with him, and all other men of his type, any yielding to "womanish" feelings was looked on as almost disgraceful. ❋ Leander Stillwell (1888)

Hard stolidity and brutal carelessness shielded him from any 'womanish' tenderness. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

The woman gu - into, or thinking of going into, the same racket. bernatorial candidate loses ground in her campaign when she bursts into tears during a public appear - The problem, of course, is to know when ex - ance, recalling the famous incident of Senator Ed - aggeration becomes lying, emotional and mental mund Muskie's "womanish" tears outside the lying, about the world one is struggling to discover newspaper office in Manchester, N.H. There is no and invent in one's fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

+] [*] To have a pale, untanned skin was "womanish" and unworthy of a free Athenian citizen. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)

Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not only would have been inspired to keep talking back, acting up, and being generally womanish-- but I would have learned that there was often more to women than meets the eye. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She had thought it a peculiar, somehow gossipy and womanish, habit of his and, now the woman was fresh in her mind again, she recalled he had said to her a few days later that the new wonder-worker had bought a house on the outskirts of Edgeton. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two days later, their womanish ghosts perched on your bed, slender and lovely and suited in ashes. ❋ Robert Kloss (2011)

"She so womanish she [eh] answer [de man] when he say [morning]." ❋ LucianGemini (2015)

❋ Dnice (2003)

[Alexander Hamilton]: "Hey [Thomas Jefferson]" Thomas Jefferson: "I'm having [PMS]!!!!!" Alexander Hamilton: "Your so womanish" ❋ Gertrude Smellyson (2009)