unsexlike en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + sex + -like.
Meanings
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(archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.
1822, The Saturday Magazine, volume 2, page 370:[…] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]
1841, Mary Anne M'Mullan, Lines from the Land of Streams, page 14:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unsexlike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unsexlike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |