Unsexlike
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsexlike is an adjective meaning (archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
Meaning
(archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
Example Sentences
[…] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]
Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unmanly, invirile, unbefitting, unkind, ungentlemanly, unbeseeming.
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