Definition of "unmanly" []

• Dishonorable; degrading. (adjective)
• Lacking courage; cowardly. (adjective)
• Regarded as unbecoming to a man. (adjective)

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• "I found, however, that although I allowed them many indulgences, they had still a great longing after war expeditions; and I could learn, in a quiet way, that they often drew comparisons by no means to my advantage, between my father's warlike propensities and what they called my unmanly disposition."
• "Because he'd have to be a man for a woman but kneeling before her to pleasure her with his tongue in unmanly subservience?"
• "I flew immediately to Miss Tuttle with the violent demand as to whether she knew that her sister was already a wife when she married me, and when she cried out 'No!' and showed great dismay, I broke forth with the dreadful tale and cowered in unmanly anguish at her feet, and went mad and lost myself for a little while."