Example Sentences

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Ms Bhagwandas said younger generations faced less stigma than previous generations, when body hair was often labelled "masculine" or "unfeminine".

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Women began working in fields once thought too dangerous or unfeminine: manufacturing, textiles, even science and medicine.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2022

Alternately, they go the Buffy the Vampire Slayer route, showing their vulnerability by agonizing about whether their strength makes them abnormal or unfeminine.

From The Verge • Aug. 14, 2019

Its simplistic reading of the queens — Mary is weak and womanly, Elizabeth is stern and unfeminine — is complicated by the force of both actresses.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver