womanish tears. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In other words, the men who rule are being called womanish, or childish. From Wordnik.com. [Family Reformation] Reference
Cassius gripes that Rome has become "womanish" and mocks Caesar for resembling "a sick girl.". From Wordnik.com. [Theater review: Taffety Punk's all-female 'Julius Caesar'] Reference
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006] Reference
Hard stolidity and brutal carelessness shielded him from any 'womanish' tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
The epithet "womanish" could not therefore have had among the Egyptians of his day a derogatory Men's-State signification. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul] Reference
This looks more anchor womanish, don ` t you think?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007] Reference
To worst eies womanish, though we change thus soone. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
The "garb of old Gaul," chosen as a womanish attire!. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
His hand shot out to him with an almost womanish sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Some in womanish hands shook rods cone-wreathed above them. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
'This is no time,' he said, 'to melt away in womanish grief. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
She had firmly vowed no plaints of hers, or womanish weak tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
These seemed to me womanish advices, which I should blush to obey. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
In this one thing old Mother Nature will be whimsical and womanish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
I fear this womanish approach renders your wounds acquired in useless service. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
These appeared to me but womanish counsels, which I would have blushed to obey. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
She tied one end to him and the other about her own body in clumsy, womanish knots. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
There the great man's face softened until it became almost womanish in its sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
Some monarchs, such as Edward II. and the womanish Henry VI., have been contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
She had never seen a man so beautiful, so hard and strong yet so — so — womanish?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Paul could not meet the womanish blue eyes turned towards him: he turned abruptly away. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
He is, in fact — permit me to say it — a womanish creature that loves to shine, the. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
Why not shake off this womanish weakness and enjoy the blessings of light while you can?. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
But I don't accept that that means I can't have all kinds of girlish, womanish feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Sex And the Single Girl] Reference
In contrast with the other Apostles, this gave him a womanish, almost girlish appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
Was it the soft, sentimental, almost womanish streak in Luddie made him capable of loving?. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Wilt thou not in silence, ceasing from womanish groans, make up thy mind to what is decreed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
A man could not say this out loud because sentiment was supposed to be essentially womanish. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
'Nay, Eugene, this is womanish; bear it like a man,' said he, wiping the tears from his own eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
There was a womanish vein in the man that he should press me in this fashion for a useless answer. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
I love the men with women's faces and the women, if possible, with still more womanish expressions. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Tea Book] Reference
There was womanish solicitude in the scrutiny he bent upon Garry Devereau's crookedly smiling face. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
Then, after a moment, with sudden, womanish curiosity: "How did you know I was singing here to-night?". From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
At the same time she had a womanish vanity about her admirers, and entire freedom in speaking of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
No, I suppose, the great Cause of Honour must be determined by the womanish Revenge of Scolding; and when two. From Wordnik.com. [The Theater (1720)] Reference
"But as I have no womanish repertoire of songs to prove it, you can whistle it all you want and be damned to you.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
But he was a soft liver, unpractised in all manly pastimes, and the bow was like iron in his white, womanish hands. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
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