fair sex

Noun

Meaning

women as a class

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

female womanhood woman distaff muliebrity womankind

Antonyms

masculinity

Hypernyms

class stratum social class socio-economic class

Examples

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. Arthur Schopenhauer

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. Charles Baudelaire

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. Samuel Johnson

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. John George Nicolay

The fair sex is your department. Arthur Conan Doyle

If devotion to the fair sex be admitted as a criterion of civilization, the Rajpoot must rank high. His susceptibility is extreme, and fires at the slightest offense to female delicacy, which he never forgives. James Tod

Close letter words and terms

fair sanction fair sentence fair settlement fair shake fair shake of the sauce bottle fair shot