| The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly. |
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| She was inclined to believe her, what with their unwomanly behavior in his presence. |
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| She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters. |
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| I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils. |
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| She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down. |
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| But having castigated male behavior, she drew back from such unwomanly outrage. |
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| Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life. |
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| She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people. |
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| So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things. |
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| Too exhausting, too competitive, too damaging to the delicate female organs, too... unwomanly. |
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| The importance of politics not being ladylike is that it must be shown, however, that it is not unwomanly. |
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| Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly. |
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| So the sort of events that were acceptable for women were things like croquet and tennis, because they wouldn't sweat and get terribly hot and look unwomanly. |
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| Theresa's intelligence doesn't seem abnormal or unwomanly, and she is the rare female character who possesses a cell phone without thereby being painted as a career-obsessed control freak. |
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| At the same time, soccer was considered unwomanly. |
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| Many voteless women regard a vote as unwomanly. Nobody says that most voteless men regarded a vote as unmanly. Nobody says that any voteless men regarded it as unmanly. |
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