as in masculine
having qualities or traits that are traditionally considered inappropriate for a girl or woman
a designer whose eclectic spring line paired hoydenish work boots with frilly skirts
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During some downtime in Paris, Chalamet balanced a masculine NFL jacket with a mini Chanel bag, a New York City Ballet baseball cap, and a black and white neckerchief.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025 -
There is no shortage of wide, masculine jeans; plaid shirts; beanies; and striped T-shirts in her rotation.—
Ana Serrano,
Glamour,
17 Jan. 2025
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The new girl’s unladylike bravado ensures that she will be asked to board with the Brown girl.—
Chris Bohjalian,
Washington Post,
17 Aug. 2023
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In fact, one of the choicest bites of the entire meal was an unladylike gnaw of the generous gristle on a bone followed by a spoonful of marrow-thickened soup, bobbing with cubes of cleansing daikon.—
Jiayang Fan,
The New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2022
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The intention behind this final postcard may have been, yet again, to paint the fight for suffrage as absurd, to make suffragists seem like willful, unfeminine animals.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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This really helped cement this idea that there was something or there could be something unfeminine about successful athletes.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
1 Aug. 2024
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Similarly to how the president-elect won the Hispanic male vote and swayed more Black men to vote for him than in 2020, Trump is now also appealing to younger people despite them being traditionally more left wing and more countercultural, breaking the norms of voting patterns across generations.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Pickleball gives a brand like adidas the ability to market its products not just to the young male athletic demographic, but to the entire gamut of pickleball players, many of whom are at retirement age.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Hoydenish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoydenish. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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