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    Use "unmanly" in a sentence

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    unmanly


    1. Unmanly? Perhaps! But those who had endured the campaign are the better judges


    2. Laws that are improperly enforced are vapid and unmanly and should be unceremoniously repealed!


    3. their happily unmanly way of interrogation


    4. It is a great error to teach boys and young men that it is unmanly to show tenderness or otherwise to give evidence of emotional feeling or physical suffering


    5. Lip balm can be used by both men and women, although some males hesitate using it, by thinking that it is unmanly


    6. ‘‘The Lord said, ‘From what cause, O Arjun, does this unmanly


    7. man, though endowed with sexual prowess, is yet unmanly if he has no


    8. That seems unmanly


    9. Effeminate: A man acting like a woman; unmanly; causing confusion to children


    10. Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn't quite forgive yet

    11. It might be unmanly, but he couldn't help it, and I am glad of it


    12. unmanly, though not so mean? When such laws were framed, should not


    13. When we hear some passage in which a hero laments his sufferings at tedious length, you know that we sympathize with him and praise the poet; and yet in our own sorrows such an exhibition of feeling is regarded as effeminate and unmanly (Ion)


    14. The manner of the scout was seriously impressive, though no longer distinguished by any signs of unmanly apprehension


    15. Shall this be? Are their souls to enter the land of the just like hungry Iroquois or unmanly Delawares, or shall they meet their friends with arms in their hands and robes on their backs? What will our fathers think the tribes of the Wyandots have become? They will look on their children with a dark eye, and say, 'Go! a Chippewa has come hither with the name of a Huron


    16. The three sons looked bewildered, and struggled to hold back unmanly tears


    17. What! why, he objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscience was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie up himself from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times


    18. Katavasov did not like him, because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly


    19. And Uncle Peter produced a great- Even before Scarlett was able to be about again, she noticed Rhett’s pre-occupation with the baby and was somewhat nettled and embarrassed at his pride in her in front of unmanly in the display of such love


    20. When had it stopped being whitish-blond? And when had his pliant body, which once would have done almost anything to be close to his dad, grown so stiff, as though there was something unmanly about their hands meeting on a lacrosse stick? “Okay, okay, I’ve got it,” Will said, and backpedaled away

    21. Lydgate was wretched—shaken with anger and yet feeling that it would be unmanly to vent the anger just now


    22. Has it released from galling and ignominious bondage one solitary American seaman, bleeding under British oppression? Did it prevent the unmanly attack upon the Chesapeake? Did it arrest the promulgation, or has it abrogated the Orders in Council—those orders which have given birth to a new era in commerce? In spite of all its boasted effects, are not the two nations brought to the very brink of war? Are we quite sure that, on this side of the water, it has had no effect favorable to British interests


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    Synonyms for "unmanly"

    poor-spirited pusillanimous unmanly unmanful unmanlike unmanfully womanly ladylike womanlike feminine

    "unmanly" definitions

    not possessing qualities befitting a man


    lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful


    without qualities thought to befit a man