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Significados de womanishness em inglês

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The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

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        Sinônimos
        Examples for "softness"
        Examples for "softness"
        1
        Despite the softness of her voice, the words carried to the others.
        The Irda (Children of the Stars)
        2
        The rugged fortress lay swathed in the softness of the creamy light.
        St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
        3
        But the softness is there; everything in this twilight temple is soft.
        Tremendous Trifles
        4
        The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
        My Life and Work
        5
        I heard the softness in her voice when she mentioned your name.
        Snow melts in spring
        1
        A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.
        Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B...
        2
        Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 02
        3
        These two Italian abbes were ne plus ultras in luxury and effeminacy.
        The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
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        Grecian refinement was no longer despised; Grecian effeminacy had not yet prevailed.
        Germania and Agricola
        5
        The ex-commercial traveller was astonished at the effeminacy engendered by provincial life.
        Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
        1
        Does that excuse your unmanliness, your-youmight have killed her, you know.
        The Story of the Big Front Door
        2
        The unmanliness of his tone was so dreadful a disillusion.
        The Odd Women
        3
        We rightly ascribe this sort of contentment to mere unmanliness and want of spirit.
        Considerations on Representative Government
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        The feeling of unmanliness in his own position tortured him into a mood of perversity.
        New Grub Street
        5
        But to-day I taunted my soul with its unmanliness till it rose in rebellion against me.
        Prose Fancies
        1
        Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness.
        Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
        2
        To all appearances equally removed from effeminateness and brutality, he was subject, nevertheless, to accesses of both.
        Atlantis
        3
        Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness.
        Half a Rogue
        4
        "Also, there is a certain effeminateness in the way in which you speak," said Pembroke.
        The Perfectionists
        1
        Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness.
        The Book of Business Etiquette
        2
        It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston "sissiness."
        A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
        Uso de womanishness em inglês
        1
        We need a new word for laddishness, for this is womanishness nowadays.
        The Guardian
        2
        There was no limit to his womanishness.
        Botchan (Master Darling)
        3
        Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness.
        The Doctor's Dilemma
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        Yes; you sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
        An Unsocial Socialist
        Translations for womanishness
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        pluma
        Womanishness ao longo do tempo