Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word UNMANLY

Definitions of UNMANLY

1. Of or pertaining to something not human.
2. In a manner that is unmanly.
3. (of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
4. (of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
5. (of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable from a man.
6. (of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.

Examples of Using UNMANLY in a Sentence

• With no humble apologies, no unmanly servility, no petty spite, no sullen treachery, he is a cheerful, frank citizen of the United States, accepting the present, trusting the future, and proud of the past.
• Hitherto Confucian scholars of ancient literature had shown a preference for the grandness and masculinity of Man'yōshū poetry and an aversion to works like the Tale of Genji, which were regarded as unmanly and feminine.
• With no humble apologies, no unmanly servility, no petty spite, no sullen treachery, he is a cheerful, frank citizen of the United States, accepting the present, trusting the future, and proud of the past.
• He also noted that peoples of "mountainous, rugged, elevated, and well-watered" countries displayed "enterprising" and "warlike" characteristics, while peoples of "level, windy, and well-watered" countries were "unmanly" and "gentle".
• Collier later said, "the French are unmanly and frivolous, their morals are universally profligate", and he did not care if he offended them.
• " The British House of Lords called it a "most heinous proclamation" and regarded it as "one of the grossest, most brutal, and must unmanly insults to every woman in New Orleans.
• He even ends his sister's budding romance with Chandu by marrying her off to his unmanly but better-off friend Kunjiraman.
• The sport, famously dismissed as "unmanly and un-German" and "insufficiently violent" by Adolf Hitler himself, endured thanks in no small part to the dogged enthusiasm of local players, who shrugged off the requisitioning of grounds and restrictions on weekend travel – not to mention the presence of thousands of heavily armed Nazis and the bombing of the main sports dealers in Rotterdam – to organise as many as 300 matches a year.
• Such things are unmanly and non-Prussian and, of course, a fellow must pooh-pooh something, even if it happens to be something he rather fancies, you know.
• He is somewhat gullible, being persuaded by the cunning Long John Silver into hiring a crew of mutinous pirates, and argues with Captain Alexander Smollett about the latter's "unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English" doubts about the safety of the cruise.
• If this opportunity had presented itself and I had made this vindication, I could have no objection to set my hand to what I know to be true concerning the late lamented John Sheppard, but I feel a great repugnance to do so now, lest it should seem an ungenerous and unmanly way of disavowing any sympathy with that school, and a means of shielding myself.
• Gary Arnold of The Washington Post panned the film as a "shoddy, puerile science-fiction parable" that "mistakes juvenile facetiousness for wit and glorifies a juvenile concept of freedom, which means making it in the wild, away from such unmanly encumbrances as civilization and girls".
• The song starts with the trolls asking Anna what is turning her off from dating Kristoff, like "his unmanly blondness" or his tendency to "tinkle in the woods".
• Due to the fact that Alex is transgender, the thanes of Valhalla and some fellow einherjar call Alex argr, Old Norse for "unmanly".

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