unmacho

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmacho
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In both sketches, Keaton plays an effeminate man who doesn’t quite understand the assignment.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Seeing Laura’s discomfort with her, Cherry employs her feminine wiles to cause a fracture in Laura and Daniel’s connection.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kate Middleton, Reese Witherspoon, and Joanna Gaines each have pretty distinct style — yet, this one feminine fashion detail spans all of their wardrobes.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s still a girlish quality to Mishi’s look thanks to the short shorts, which also accentuate the legs that will determine her greatness.
    Oliver Sava, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Pop stars like Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter conjured girlish elegance in pale gowns with feathers and ruffles.
    The Styles Desk, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The obvious split between masculine, feminine, and implicitly unmasculine is key to Campion’s pompous storytelling.
    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
Adjective
  • The British designer made a stealthy comeback in 2023 with a namesake label hinged on her brand of modern minimalism, womanly allure and uncompromising quality.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).
    Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
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“Unmacho.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmacho. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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