unmanly

Example Sentences

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Young Alison and her dandyish father were inversions of each other: “While I was trying to compensate for something unmanly in him,” she writes, “he was attempting to express something feminine through me.”

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

While soccer is the global game, the CPL is describing their brand as “distinctly Canadian”, an attacking hard-nosed style where the feigning of phantom injuries is seen as unmanly.

From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2019

There’s something so utterly unpresidential about tweeting matters of import — and, frankly, so unmanly — one wonders why Mattis remained as long as he did.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2018

He worried that if Vietnam fell to communism, then he would get labeled “a coward. An unmanly man. A man without a spine.”

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2018

And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez