unsexlike
English
Etymology
un- + sex + -like
Adjective
unsexlike (comparative more unsexlike, superlative most unsexlike)
- (archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).
- 1822, The Saturday Magazine (volume 2, page 370)
- Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.
- 1841, Mary Anne M'Mullan, Lines from the Land of Streams (page 14)
- […] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]
- 1822, The Saturday Magazine (volume 2, page 370)