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gender-specifically

gender-specifically adverb: in a gender-specific manner.

Adverb

gender-specifically (comparative more gender-specifically, superlative most gender-specifically)

  1. In a gender-specific manner.
    • Christine Todd Whitman is not “one of the boys,” not just gender-specifically speaking, but philosophically speaking. Mrs. Whitman may be misguided, but she is sincere. The boys are out for themselves.1993 October 6, John Turner, “A theory about the ‘big boys’ behind Christie”, in The Courier-News, page A-11
    • Now, we weren’t talking about imports who only wear Oil Barons colours for a couple of seasons and then move on, but kids, or more gender-specifically, males who went through the minor hockey system and have roots planted firmly in the local tarsands.2006 November 25, Curtis Phillips, “Who’s on your top ten list?”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 10, number 47, page 12

Examples of gender-specifically in a sentence

  • But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically.2013 August 7, Andrea Darr, “at home with Ali Bronska”, in Ink, volume 6, number 20, page 18:
  • The first case opens with the phrase אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי, which may be understood either inclusively (everyone who) or gender-specifically (every man who).2017, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15, T&T Clark, published 2022, →ISBN, page 59:

Antonyms of gender-specifically

Forms of gender-specifically

comparativemore gender-specifically
superlativemost gender-specifically

Questions about gender-specifically

What does gender-specifically mean?
Gender-specifically means in a gender-specific manner.
How do you use gender-specifically in a sentence?
But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically.
What part of speech is gender-specifically?
Gender-specifically is an adverb.

Words near gender-specifically in the dictionary

  1. gender-neutrally
  2. gender-nonconforming
  3. gender-role
  4. gender-safe
  5. gender-specific
  6. gender-specifically
  7. gender-swapping
  8. gender-vague
  9. genderable
  10. genderal
  11. genderbend

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