unmanliness
IPA: ʌnmˈænɫinʌs
noun
- The property of being unmanly; sissiness.
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Examples of "unmanliness" in Sentences
- Upset at what she might be thinking, at his own unmanliness, he seized her arm.
- What's even more striking about these persistent allegations of unmanliness is how entirely, well, unsubtle they've been.
- Tschaikowsky speaks straight to the nerves, with that touch of unmanliness which is another characteristic of modern art.
- One blogger made the Mobius-strip-like argument that if today's men were truly manly they wouldn't be scared away from reading by its reputation for unmanliness.
- – ebb and surge through a once-in-a-lifetime cast Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark in which the doctors are often nuttier than the patients; or Tea And Sympathy, a halting, mealy-mouthed and profoundly dated attempt to deal, however obliquely, with the taboo of homosexuality, here dubbed "unmanliness".
- There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nickname unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border.
- There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nick-name unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border.
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