unmanly

Example Sentences

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In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”

From Salon

“A lot of them just experienced what was required in school as being unmanly,” he said, most noticeably among young men whose parents were low-income or had not been to college.

From Seattle Times

The idea that wearing a mask is "unmanly" took hold.

From Salon

Contrast that with how another country handled the idea that masks were unmanly.

From Washington Post

That included "sadness, the impulse to be kind, the impulse to be generous -- those things that my grandfather found superfluous, unmanly," she said in the footage released by ABC.

From Fox News