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.
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.