How To Use Unmanly In A Sentence
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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.
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Your partner can feel the loss as acutely as you, but may feel that it is unmanly to cry.
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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’.
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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.
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Your partner can feel the loss as acutely as you, but may feel that it is unmanly to cry.
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To delineate masculinity it was constantly necessary to define and proscribe unmanly behavior.
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We'll never accuse you of having done anything forgetful or unmanly.
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Why is it a manly diversion to bully others whereas sexual deviation is unmanly and deserving of moral and criminal censure?
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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.
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They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
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Instead, the Bush ideologues came to power smug in the security of their own worldview, part of which, frankly, seems to be the belief that it would be soft and unmanly to let facts alter their preconceptions.
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A compound of imbecility and baseness, yet an object of commiseration: an unmanly, blubbering, lovesick, querulous creature; a soldier, whining, piping and besprent with tears, destitute of any good quality to gain esteem, or any brilliant trait or interesting circumstance to relieve an actor under the weight of representing him.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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Things once considered unmanly such as taking pride in home decorating or even exfoliating and moisturizing your skin are gradually turning into a male indulgence and becoming more acceptable by society.
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He uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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My husband hates the idea that women love chocolate more than men – he does not like the idea of downplaying his chocoholism, or the implication that it is unmanly!
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Your partner can feel the loss as acutely as you, but may feel that it is unmanly to cry.
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Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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For him, vegetarianism is unmanly, as is refraining from killing animals.
Hegel on Buddhism
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They did not cosset their womenfolk and they considered those who did so to be unmanly.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Fashion followers may like to know that Sir Thomas defied his wife's decree in last Thursday's style gospel, the Daily Telegraph, that pink is deemed unmanly for a Yorkshire gent by duly sporting a waistcoat in that very hue.
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One mention of it causes them to scrunch up their faces, stick their fingers in their ears and squeal ‘too much information’ in unmanly high voices.
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I do not enjoy pulling rank, but I do not tolerate unmanly gossip and back-biting.
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They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
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One of the things that was thrown at the anti-war movement in the mid-'60s was that the people were cowards, unmanly because they wouldn't fight and kill for their country.
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some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it
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This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_.
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They've made snarky jabs about the administration using our soldiers as ' social workers, ' doing all sorts of unmanly, unsoldierly duties.
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Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
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His teeth were gritted, his body locked, as though he were only just holding back an unmanly scream.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever!
The Caged Lion
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Nero's boyish pride by taunting him with what she called his degrading and unmanly subjection to his mother.
Nero Makers of History Series
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The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain!
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Johnson's mother stressed intellectual and artistic achievement, while his father considered intellect and culture to be unmanly.
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I recovered some where they had halted in bieldy places; others of them went further, and fell into other hands, and particularly into those of a neighbour, who, a short while previously, had played an unmanly part relating to a sheep and the march which ran between us.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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Pindars allegorize a division between disciplined and vulnerable bodies, true and false patriotism, manly and unmanly sentiment.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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Grandpa would, in essence, teach me to be afraid, to understand the humiliation that awaited me if I dared shed tears or demonstrate some other unmanly behavior.
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There's absolutely nothing unmanly about wanting to make the world a more loving place.
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Eager to cut the tension following what they perceived to be a slightly unmanly excursion - two guys looking at art together - they headed directly to a bar…
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But excavations at the Catterick Roman settlement in North Yorkshire suggest some members of the garrison were more likely to have been found in highly coloured women's robes, turbans, tiaras and rather unmanly hair-dos.
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No; he can rob her with impunity, even to waste publicly on a courtezan; and the laws of her country — if women have a country — afford her no protection or redress from the oppressor, unless she have the plea of bodily fear; yet how many ways are there of goading the soul almost to madness, equally unmanly, though not so mean?
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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Men, he claimed, are much less likely to weep due to bodily pain since weeping is seen as a weak and unmanly behaviour.
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Given the fact that manhood is associated with power, and being powerless is seen as unmanly, violence becomes a means to prove otherwise to others and oneself.
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The reader is meant to despise him as weak and unmanly and, thanks to Rand's powers as a novelist, we have no trouble seeing him in this way.
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They intended to keep their relationship a casual free-and-easy friendship, they were not going to be so unmanly and unnatural as to allow any heart-burning between them.
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The Boss gasps, suppressing his unmanly girlish enthusiasm.
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I would ask that the severest penalty allowed be inflicted on the accused for his unwarranted, unmanly, and blackguardly conduct.
Duty, and other Irish Comedies
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Two decades before he ever jostled with Du Bois, he was asserting that of course ‘there should be no unmanly cowering or stooping to satisfy unreasonable whims of the Southern white man.’
