womanize
verb (used with object)
to make effeminate.
Example Sentences
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Charlie, meanwhile, sets out to ensure that Lady Jemima’s suitor, the ne’er-do-well Thomas Smythe-Roberts, is revealed as a womanizing cad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Previously known for: “Mad Men,” which earned Hamm an Emmy award for his performance as brooding, womanizing ad man Don Draper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
In his research, Shakespeare sagely quotes Fleming’s friend Ernest Cuneo, who saw the genesis of Bond’s womanizing character in Fleming’s ill-fated relationship with Monique.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
“There’s this shift from the view of the chef as the macho, womanizing Marco Pierre White brute to, like, ‘Hey, I’m a nerdy tinkerer... and I love taking things apart and putting them back together.’”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023
The title character of Chekhov’s early play, a womanizing schoolteacher who broods on his life of failure, never materializes during the production’s two and a half hours.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
