Idiom
gentle sex
Meaning
Women generally.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He always tries to be polite to the gentle sex.”
“In the literature of the nineteenth century, authors often referred to women as the gentle sex.”
“The protagonist maintained an old-fashioned belief that he should always offer his seat to members of the gentle sex.”
Examples
simple
“He always tries to be polite to the gentle sex.”
contextual
“In the literature of the nineteenth century, authors often referred to women as the gentle sex.”
complex
“The protagonist maintained an old-fashioned belief that he should always offer his seat to members of the gentle sex.”
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