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unmanliness

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Example Sentences

This company crushes the stale stereotype about the unmanliness of dance.

At first you think the scene is just to mock the unmanliness of this pencil-pushing suit.

Moore speculates that she despised his “unmanliness,” a shrewd surmise given her Lady Macbeth-like disdain for the slightest “wobbliness” in masculinity.

“Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally... moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any.”

From Salon

The word signifies unmanliness to me, and I don’t think of him that way.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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