womanish attitude
- noun
- Slur
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actitud afeminada
- She accused him of having a womanish attitude whenever he showed his feelings.
Examples
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Some critics dismissed the artist's work as showing a womanish attitude toward life.
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She criticized his womanish attitude towards the project.
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His womanish attitude surprised everyone at the meeting.
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His womanish attitude during the meeting surprised everyone.
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His womanish attitude during the heated discussion led others to view him as overly emotional.
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She remarked that his womanish attitude was inappropriate in a professional setting, as it demonstrated a lack of assertiveness.
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Many judged the director's film for its womanish attitude, claiming it emphasized trivial emotions over serious themes.
Synonyms
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3.4
A set of qualities often seen in women, like gentleness and grace
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The quality of being gentle, caring, and graceful often linked to females
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7.0
Qualities and feelings that show a person is an adult female
Qualities or style people think belong to women, like gentle manner and dress
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning — an attitude characteristic of women — is directly and compositionally derivable from 'womanish' (feminine qualities) + 'attitude' (habitual way of thinking), so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the basic sense. The primarily pejorative or disparaging nuance may not be fully inferred without pragmatic or cultural knowledge, but that does not block straightforward compositional understanding.
Etymology
The phrase womanish attitude comes from old ideas that 'being like a woman' meant showing strong feeling or 'weakness'. Calling someone's attitude womanish was a way to insult them, so today the phrase is used to say someone is behaving 'too emotional' or 'weak'.