unvirile

Updated: May 6, 2025

In Denis Laurie, the gentle essayist and recluse, one might expect to find some feminine attributes; but even the bolder and badder lots, whose task it is to supply the melodramatic relief, struck me as oddly unvirile. But this is only a personal view.

Various - Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917