unmasculine

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Recent Examples of unmasculine The obvious split between masculine, feminine, and implicitly unmasculine is key to Campion’s pompous storytelling. Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021 On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion). Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021 There are some people who worry the vaccine was authorized too quickly, and even some men who think protection from a deadly virus is unmasculine. Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmasculine
Adjective
  • In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • But worry not: Once it’s done poking fun at an effeminate male stereotype, the script swoops in with a cautious coming-out monologue perfectly tailored to generate a fresh round of headlines celebrating and/or criticizing Disney’s latest LGBTQ milestone.
    Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
Adjective
  • In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.
    Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?
    Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 22 Nov. 2018
Adjective
  • Its silhouette was designed to feel feminine and luxe.
    Tiffany Leigh, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Tori and Rachel form a tentative alliance, planning to exert their feminine wiles over their respective male allies to keep each other safe.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024

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“Unmasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmasculine. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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