unmanly

Speech parts

1. unmanly - Adjective

2. unmanly - Adverb

3. unmanly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

not possessing qualities befitting a man

without qualities thought to befit a man

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Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone and apart from modern society in natural simplicity to be a mark of "unmanly" effeminacy and "womanish solitude", while deeming him a self-indulgent "skulker." Source: Internet

During a street run-in with some young locals, the Bolivian musicians saw them as astonishingly rude and discourteous; the Americans saw the Bolivians as unmanly and weak. Source: Internet

Later on I managed to get dry-eyed through the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but the sight of his little boy saluting as his father's body was borne past sent me into spasms of unmanly weeping. Source: Internet

Scarlett's love interest, Ashley Wilkes, lacks manliness, and her husbands—the "calf-like" Charles Hamilton, and the "old-maid in britches", Frank Kennedy— are unmanly as well. Source: Internet

However, the intellectual Fritz was more interested in music, books and French culture, which were forbidden by his father as decadent and unmanly. Source: Internet

However, this was considered "unmanly" Anonymous ("A Celebrated Pugilist"), The Art and Practice of Boxing, 1825 and was frequently disallowed by additional rules negotiated by the Seconds of the Boxers. Source: Internet

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