unmanlike

Example Sentences

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It must be owned, however, that when a moment later the sound of muffled voices became audible down the stairs, he trembled extremely, and was guilty of the unmanlike act of hiding behind the curtain.

From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan

For the said dale, which hight the Black Valley of the Greywethers, hath a bad name for the haunting of unmanlike wights, against which even our men-at-arms might make no defence. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

A man—or a boy!—always hates to be intruding his own convictions upon other men, especially in a case like this, where he might be afraid of some idiot's thinking him unmanlike.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth