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weaker sex en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weaker, sex.
2. (offensive) Women; the female gender.
   • For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter. 2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:
   • "There's always a reason behind a lie. People can be very good at lying. Women can be especially good at it because they're the weaker sex and we, that's what the books say, and we want to protect them and not have anyone take advantage of them. At least I do," Farese said during closing statements Wednesday. 2017 April 22, “Attorney in Tennessee Rape Trial Says Women are Good Liars Because ‘They’re the Weaker Sex’”, in KTLA5:

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weaker vessel · fair sex

Translations (22)

ro sexul slab (women regarded collectively) · ru сла́бый пол (women regarded collectively) · nb det svake kjønn (women regarded collectively) · ur صِنفِ نازُک (women regarded collectively) · fr sexe faible (women regarded collectively) · da det svage køn (women regarded collectively) · nl zwakke geslacht (women regarded collectively) · fi heikompi astia (women regarded collectively) · pt sexo fraco (women regarded collectively) · cmn 女性 (women regarded collectively) · cmn 婦道人家 /妇道人家 (women regarded collectively) · hu gyengébbik nem (women regarded collectively) · it sesso debole (women regarded collectively) · pt belo sexo (women regarded collectively) · pl słaba płeć (women regarded collectively) · pl płeć piękna (women regarded collectively) · pt sexo frágil (women regarded collectively) · ba гүзәл зат (women regarded collectively) · hy տկար սեռ (women regarded collectively) · de schwaches Geschlecht (women regarded collectively) · es sexo débil (women regarded collectively) · hu gyengébb nem (women regarded collectively)