unmanly

How To Use unmanly In A Sentence

• For unmanly men tend to two extremes: either soft and selfish, unwilling to support or defend others, or harsh and violent, accustomed to brutally taking whatever they want.
• Your partner can feel the loss as acutely as you, but may feel that it is unmanly to cry.
• She points out that early 20th-century African American writers felt that repudiating accusations of unmanly and unwomanly sexual behavior ‘was crucial to black people's changing their subjugated social status’.
• The ‘something’ used to be gin and bitter lemon - which some friends viewed as unmanly and one, the late poet Ian Hamilton, would only order if Barnes uttered the name of the offending mixer.
• Your partner can feel the loss as acutely as you, but may feel that it is unmanly to cry.
• To delineate masculinity it was constantly necessary to define and proscribe unmanly behavior.
• We'll never accuse you of having done anything forgetful or unmanly.
• Why is it a manly diversion to bully others whereas sexual deviation is unmanly and deserving of moral and criminal censure?
• The building committee's defence of the institution attempted to deflect the serious charge of proselytism by criticizing the second special committee for unmanly and impertinent behaviour.
• They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’