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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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So in a move that no one had approved, Wayans put on an effeminate voice for the character in hopes Executive Producer Lorne Michaels would be angry.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2024
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 royal paired the jacket with a flowing pleated midi skirt, offering a balance between structured and feminine, and nude pointed-toe pumps.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
12 July 2025
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And beyond the viral jokes littering Palmer’s comments are thousands of seemingly serious comments calling her video just an example of how leaning into feminine roles can be self care.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unmasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmasculine. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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