womanly
IPA: wˈʊmʌnɫi
adjective
- Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.
- (rare) Female.
adverb
- In the manner of a woman.
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Examples of "womanly" in Sentences
- I call womanly; it was not like Ethelbertha at all.
- She's not what I call womanly, and I hate these unsexed females. "
- It could be part culture that being womanly is being pleasant and agreeable.
- What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and
- What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living.
- "That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed.
- Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play.
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