unsexed
IPA: ʌnsˈɛkst
adjective
- Not separated by sex; not having undergone sexing.
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Examples of "unsexed" in Sentences
- Robinson was named as one of the "unsexed" women writer's in
- But overall, the number of unsexed Americans is startling high.
- These scornful pieces of media claimed the New Woman had “unsexed” herself and lost the respect of men.
- Much effort is wasted in showing that women will become "unsexed" and "masculine" by assuming these human duties.
- I have had four offers of marriage since I "unsexed" myself (that's the proper expression, I believe), and all from most respectable, well-to-do, worthy men; and I really think they all cared for me.
- And after all, the woman reformers, whose strongly-marked individuality or coarser fibre of being permits them to take positions or give utterance to sentiments which enables the public (itself more culpable) to cry "unsexed" "mannish," -- are but few.
- Evelyn Baring, the British administrator who ran Egypt from 1883 to 1907, firmly opposed women's suffrage in London—he sneered at the idea of "the unsexed woman voting at the polling booth"—yet in North Africa he championed the cause of unveiling as a civilizing reform.
- Miss Corelli tells us that the woman who is 'well-nigh stripped to man's gaze every night,' and who 'drinks too much wine and brandy,' is not subjected to this reproach, whilst if another woman 'prefers to keep her woman's modesty, and execute some great work of art which shall be as good or even better than anything man can accomplish, she will be dubbed "unsexed" instantly,' Where has Miss Corelli found the society of which these amazing things are true?
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