unsexlike
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unsexlike (comparative more unsexlike, superlative most unsexlike)
- (archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
- 1822, The Saturday Magazine, volume 2, page 370:
- Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.
- 1841, Mary Anne M'Mullan, Lines from the Land of Streams, page 14:
- […] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]