womanly
adjective
like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
unwomanly
-
a word derived from
womanly.
Example Sentences
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Or maybe they thought a male scriptwriter was putting unwomanly words into a female robot’s script.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021
Personally speaking I’ve never been raped, or had an abortion, or found being female especially painful, but that doesn’t make me unwomanly and it doesn’t stop Emin’s voice resonating for others.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2018
Surely a desire, even in an oral history, for modest factual scaffolding doesn’t make one unwomanly?
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
So when twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed to me unwomanly and uncalled for, that bitter, scornful speech; even granting the truth of it, which had not been established in my mind.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
