unmanly
Example Sentences
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While soccer is the global game, the CPL is describing their brand as “distinctly Canadian”, an attacking hard-nosed style where the feigning of phantom injuries is seen as unmanly.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2019
He worried that if Vietnam fell to communism, then he would get labeled “a coward. An unmanly man. A man without a spine.”
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2018
“From what source come these unmanly fears that prevail among us? ... What is it that has shaken the nerves of so many?” asked journalist Walter Lippmann, himself not a little shaken by the proposal.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2017
“It is mere unmanly folly to do away with the sport because the risk exists.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016
And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
