Unsexlike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman). archaic

    "Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies."

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"Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies."

Etymology

From un- + sex + -like.

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