Example Sentences

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Man, in his turn, will be a beneficiary of this new womanliness as he has been the ready victim of the old-womanishness.

From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William

They fancied, with the eager old-womanishness of office gossip, that he had a "secret sorrow," for, though he was pleasant enough, he kept very much to himself.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair