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词汇 unwomanly
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Definition of unwomanly in English:

unwomanly

adjectiveʌnˈwʊmənliˌənˈwʊmənli
  • Not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women.

    不像女人的,与女人身份不相称的

    initiative of any overt sort was considered unwomanly

    任何公开的主动行为都被认为是不符合妇女身份的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
    • So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
    • She was inclined to believe her, what with their unwomanly behavior in his presence.
    • She points out that early 20th-century African American writers felt that repudiating accusations of unmanly and unwomanly sexual behavior ‘was crucial to black people's changing their subjugated social status’.
    • However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
    • Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life.
    • She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
    • The pursuit of education and a career is secondary and may even be perceived as ‘un-Greek’ or unwomanly.
    • So the sort of events that were acceptable for women were things like croquet and tennis, because they wouldn't sweat and get terribly hot and look unwomanly.
    • She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
    • The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.
    • He uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
    • In the other beating scenes, unwomanly behavior - both Orlean's and his mother's physical attacks against Baptiste - contributes to the hero's loss of self-control.
    • There's a huge underlying feeling/history in a lot of cultures that to be intellectually sharp and independent is somehow unwomanly.
    • She was an independently minded sister of a convent in Mexico, who drew criticism from the ecclesiastical hierarchy for the supposedly unwomanly nature of her celebrated poetry.
    • I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
    • He thought it was such an unwomanly, tomboy thing.
    • Less concerned with the standing of Belle Cora than with the legitimacy of the vigilantes' supporters, however, Gertrude accused the pro-vigilante women of being unchristian, uncharitable, and unwomanly.
    • But having castigated male behavior, she drew back from such unwomanly outrage.
    • You don't think that's unwomanly of me, do you?
    Synonyms
    mannish, manlike, unfeminine, unladylike, amazonian

Derivatives

  • unwomanliness

  • noun
    • He was touched by the simple self-respect that would not let her suffer from what was not wrong in itself, but that made her shrink from a voluntary semblance of unwomanliness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Paul has already made them see the unfitness of the unveiled head for woman, its immodesty and unwomanliness, and now, with that impression on their minds, he asks if it is proper to pray to God in such unseemly fashion’.
      • Sooner than such an inversion of social order, I would welcome even Turkish bondage; for surely utter ignorance is infinitely preferable to erudite unwomanliness.
      • On the contrary, creditable mention is made of the fact that she did instruct him, and that through that instruction he was made useful to the world; and all this upon the authority of inspiration, without one word of censure as to her unwomanliness.
      • She is to be seen standing on her tub shouting with the best; and as little abashed by the unwomanliness of her ‘environment’ as are her more mischievous compeers on the political stump.

Definition of unwomanly in US English:

unwomanly

adjectiveˌənˈwo͝omənlēˌənˈwʊmənli
  • Not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women.

    不像女人的,与女人身份不相称的

    initiative of any overt sort was considered unwomanly

    任何公开的主动行为都被认为是不符合妇女身份的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.
    • Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life.
    • So the sort of events that were acceptable for women were things like croquet and tennis, because they wouldn't sweat and get terribly hot and look unwomanly.
    • In the other beating scenes, unwomanly behavior - both Orlean's and his mother's physical attacks against Baptiste - contributes to the hero's loss of self-control.
    • She was inclined to believe her, what with their unwomanly behavior in his presence.
    • I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
    • She points out that early 20th-century African American writers felt that repudiating accusations of unmanly and unwomanly sexual behavior ‘was crucial to black people's changing their subjugated social status’.
    • There's a huge underlying feeling/history in a lot of cultures that to be intellectually sharp and independent is somehow unwomanly.
    • He thought it was such an unwomanly, tomboy thing.
    • You don't think that's unwomanly of me, do you?
    • The pursuit of education and a career is secondary and may even be perceived as ‘un-Greek’ or unwomanly.
    • He uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
    • She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
    • Less concerned with the standing of Belle Cora than with the legitimacy of the vigilantes' supporters, however, Gertrude accused the pro-vigilante women of being unchristian, uncharitable, and unwomanly.
    • However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
    • She was an independently minded sister of a convent in Mexico, who drew criticism from the ecclesiastical hierarchy for the supposedly unwomanly nature of her celebrated poetry.
    • So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
    • She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
    • She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
    • But having castigated male behavior, she drew back from such unwomanly outrage.
    Synonyms
    mannish, manlike, unfeminine, unladylike, amazonian
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