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Recent Examples of unmasculine
The obvious split between masculine, feminine, and implicitly unmasculine is key to Campion’s pompous storytelling.
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Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion).
—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
There are some people who worry the vaccine was authorized too quickly, and even some men who think protection from a deadly virus is unmasculine.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
On the other side of the divide, college is viewed as meandering, luxurious, usurious, and somehow unmasculine, which explains the increasing college gender gap (not only in enrollment, but increasingly completion).
—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
There are some people who worry the vaccine was authorized too quickly, and even some men who think protection from a deadly virus is unmasculine.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmasculine
Adjective
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Throughout the 1900s, and even into the ‘80s and ’90s, women often were encouraged to be more effeminate, and male counterparts were told to embrace their masculinity.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Phil initially teases Peter for being weak and effeminate.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2023
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Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Nov. 2018
Adjective
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The peep-toe shoes (a style that’s slowly but surely making its way back into the limelight), pink manicure, and rosy blush on her cheeks add more subtle feminine touches.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
27 Jan. 2026
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Overall, guests were enthusiastic about the new direction of Chanel couture, which was light and feminine.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unmasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmasculine. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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