Unmanly
[ʌn'mænlɪ] or [ʌn'mænli]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Effeminate, womanly.[2]. Base, ignoble, mean, ungenerous, cowardly.
Edited by Kelsey
Examples
- Lydgate was wretched--shaken with anger and yet feeling that it would be unmanly to vent the anger just now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The unmanly disingenuousness! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is most unmanly conduct, said I, as soon as I could recover my breath. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Colonel Berkeley, said I, we are your visitors and wish to retire immediately from such unmanly insult as you have offered to us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And he broke out into an emotion, which anybody who likes may consider unmanly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It might be unmanly, but he couldn't help it, and I am glad of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Edited by Kelsey