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weaker sex

noun

, Older Use: Sometimes Offensive.
  1. the female sex; women (usually used facetiously):

    my life as a member of the weaker sex.



weaker sex

/ ˈwiːkə /

noun

  1. the female sex
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sensitive Note

This is a dated term, usually used for humorous effect but sometimes perceived as condescending to women. It reinforces the stereotype of a weak female.
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Example Sentences

It is accounted a point of chivalry to stand as the defender of the weaker sex.

Women are accounted the weaker sex; but there is no comparison to be made between the labor of the weaker and the stronger.

The weaker sex of course do the hardest labor, and receive more blows than kind words for their pains.

This was once a man's trick, but the progress of the weaker sex has shifted it.

It was not because a Bushi was heartless toward the weaker sex, but effeminacy was a thing which he despised most.

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