as in feminine
of or relating to a man who has or displays qualities traditionally considered more suitable for women
learned the hard way that using the recommended safety gear was sensible, not sissified
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Adjective
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In the store, pure and rigorous lines and industrial minimalism are offset by material opulence and the brand’s feminine and sensual designs.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025 -
The exhibition also includes early paintings of Munch’s family (such as a 1888 portrait of his sister Laura looking toward a fjord) and some depictions of women that emphasize feminine beauty (like The Brooch, a 1903 painting of the British violinist Eva Mudocci, who became Munch’s muse).—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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So in a move that no one had approved, Wayans put on an effeminate voice for the character in hopes Executive Producer Lorne Michaels would be angry.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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
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