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

There’s something so utterly unpresidential about tweeting matters of import — and, frankly, so unmanly — one wonders why Mattis remained as long as he did.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2018

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

Mocked with such unmanly epithets as “weakling” and “Oscar Wilde”, Roosevelt tried to overcome, Gore Vidal once pointed out, “his physical fragility through ‘manly’ activities of which the most exciting and ennobling was war”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2018

And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez