unmanly
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It also revealed that I’ve been fibbing to myself: Much as I consider myself enlightened, being unmanly in an era that worships machismo does bug me a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
Yet now, here we are creating our own field in which to feel deficient and unmanly – one which is completely invisible.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 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
And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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