Modjeska, then, and even now one of the greatest actresses on our stage, called it an unwomanly room, but I am not quite sure that this is precisely what she meant.
Is it unwomanly to believe the wife's wages should belong to the wife who earned them?
Mrs. Ordway tells in a little review of the movement, that several months previous to the election many of those who voted would have scouted the idea that they should do so unwomanly a deed;--voting belonged to men.
If she could indulge in such an unwomanly sneak as to fly from the presence of her daughter, she would never risk her neck down among the bullets that are whizzing so near her home.
You are too much like your father to be guilty of such unwomanly selfishness.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch!
Is there not something essentiallyunwomanly in it--something humiliating?
It would be cruel, selfish, and unwomanly to desert him because of his misfortune.
It would be indelicate and unwomanly to do otherwise.
There is no more reason that men should assume to decide participation in politics to be unwomanly than that woman should decide for men that it is unmanly.
Translated into English, Mr. Chairman, this means that it is unwomanly to vote.
If it be unwomanly for a woman to vote, or to hold office, it is unwomanly for Victoria to be Queen of England.
We are called unwomanly for our advocacy of this priceless boon to women.
Her levity, her frivolous laughter, her unwomanly jests, gave colour to a thousand scandals.
I, and let not my affliction be added to by thy inexorable cruelty, and unwomanly wickedness.
And as to the second, considering her vile, unwomanly wickedness, and her endeavours to instigate you more to ruin me, when your returning goodness seemed to have some compassion upon me, it is still harder.
Yet this pleases me too; he was so good, he would not let Mrs. Jewkes speak ill of me, and scorned to take her odious unwomanly advice.
I have been given to understand," she said pleasantly, "that it is unwomanly to have opinions upon politics.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch!
If a fire is raging, and she have strength to bring a bucket of water, and throw over it, is she guilty of an unwomanly action if she obey the impulse of her heart, and work diligently by the side of men whose work it is?
Or possibly he never goes into the nursery at all,--a lack of interest which would be very unwomanly in a woman, but is not the the least unmanly nor absolutely unknown in a man.
A woman who has not the essence of manhood, is an unwomanly woman.
Then they are unwomanly because they imitate men's dress, and I don't know that I should make a sin of this, were it not that at the present time men's dress is too truly hideous to be imitated even by a savage of darkest Africa!
Of course they may both re-appear, and probably will do so; but freedom of choice is now so firmly established, that no one will be considered eccentric or unwomanly for refusing to adopt them.
It would be unwomanly not to have an animal die every time she was hungry, so that her life might pick the bones of death.
It is unwomanly to waste the high energies of her love on the material charms of an elegant person, or the brilliant accomplishments of cultured manners, unless they are united with true worth of character.
The knitting women remember now with shame and sorrow that they have said hard things about the suffragettes, and thought they were unwomanly and hysterical.
Put an end to this sinful folly; blush for your unwomanly weakness!
With those bright eyes reading her unwomanly and foolish heart, was he amusing himself, as an entomologist impales a feeble worm, and from its writhing deduces the exact character of its nervous and muscular anatomy?
Wearing that opal, was it not unwomanly and wicked to thrill at the contact with one, who never could be more than her coolly kind, prudent, sagacious guardian?
It is a lie," said Anna; also, as Frau Manske afterwards pointed out to her friends, an unwomanly remark.
Yes, I consent," she answered, with a ring of fierce joy in her unwomanly tones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwomanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
