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View definitions for unmanly

unmanly

adjective as in feminine

adjective as in weak

adjective as in cowardly

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Refusing animal products is seen as "weaker, homosexual, and unmanly," according to vegan and vegetarian respondents to a 2023 survey.

From Salon

They were prejudiced against Jews, whom they viewed as clannish grinds — and unmanly, morally deficient, grasping and unattractive to boot.

From Salon

Billy Briggs’s “The Sissy Song,” released in 1951, proposed killing oneself as the adequate response to such unmanly habits as wearing the “pretty suede shoes that a lot of those sissies buy” and eating salad.

“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.

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

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

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