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  • s  having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men
    womanish tears

  • The four women are snug and smug; they have pooled their womanish fears to put life, as normally lived, in the wrong.
  • In Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet.
  • For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness.
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  • Anton Chekhov in The Moscow Times
    By the time of this meeting, Blyuvshtein -- perhaps in her mid-40s -- was a "small, skinny, already graying woman with a crumpled, old-womanish face," Chekhov wrote.

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