feminine
adjective
being or relating to to a woman or girl.
half-feminine
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a word derived from
feminine.
Example Sentences
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There was something in Anne that checked the primitive impulse of swift chase, and called forth the curious half-feminine cunning of the sophisticated pursuer.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
In the young Englishman's half-feminine face she read the same deep thoughts, the same pensive melancholy, the same passive acquiescence in a painful lot, and an endurance like her own.
From A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac
In short, when you look at the smooth, happy, half-feminine face of Shakespeare, you see one to whom all forms of debauchery were ungenial.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
Then, with a half-feminine touch of vanity, he added, "You must excuse me: I am hardly fit to go with you."
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
He carries a knotted whip in one hand, and seems to look ferociously on poor Joan in her half-manly, half-feminine garb.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
