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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmanly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was on the verge of tears and did not wish to appear unmanly.
▪ Surely wrapping up well on an autumn chill morning wasn't considered unmanly?
▪ They make remarks about an unmanly attitude, and they pretend to look for yellow streaks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmanly

late 15c., "degrading to a human,"from un- (1) "not" + manly (adj.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch onmamlijc, German unmännlich. Meaning "not having the qualities or attributes of a man" (as opposed to a woman or child) is from 1540s. Old English had unmennisclic "inhuman" (adj.); unmann (n.) "monster; wicked man."

Wiktionary
unmanly

a. 1 (context of a person English) 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. 2 Of or pertaining to something not human. 3 (context of a behaviour or action English) cowardly, base. 4 (context of a behaviour or action English) Not acceptable of a man. 5 (context of a behaviour or action English) Not becoming of a man. adv. In a manner that is unmanly.

WordNet
unmanly
  1. adj. not possessing qualities befitting a man [syn: unmanful, unmanlike] [ant: manly]

  2. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: pusillanimous, poor-spirited]

  3. adv. without qualities thought to befit a man [syn: unmanfully] [ant: manfully]

Usage examples of "unmanly".

Recounting the thing over and over again seemed a fanfaronade, unmanly, particularly since he had been required to tell the tale so often as part of his official duties.

Confidential information was sacrosanct, but Ned could share his personal fears with Sile without feeling unmanly.

But what if this so-called antipathy were only a fear, a terror, which borrowed the less unmanly name?

So John Hammond hung about the luxurious drawing-room at Fellside in a manner which his friend Maulevrier ridiculed as unmanly.

Here the agitation of the Genoese got the better of him, and he walked aside, under a sense of shame, lest he might betray unmanly weakness.

Therefore, Egbert, remember--O that I could burn it into your consciousness--the best that you can gain from your proposed evil course is a brief respite in base and sensual stupefaction, or equally artificial and unmanly excitement, and then endless waking, bitter memories, and torturing regret.

Freddie had proved to be nothing more than an innkeeper and ladies’ man, the idiom for ladies’ man untranslatable but connotating a greedy infant always at its mother’s nipple--in short, unmanly.

Could I who have held up my voice in the Music Hall of Lacedaemon amidst the glories of the West, in the great and free State of Illinois, against the corruption of an English aristocracy could I, who have been listened to by two thousand of my countrywomen and men while I spurned the unmanly, inhuman errors of primogeniture could I, think you, hold my tongue beneath the roof of a feudal lord!

Are their souls to enter the land of the just like hungry Iroquois or unmanly Delawares, or shall they meet their friends with arms in their hands and robes on their backs?

I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provokmg revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.

I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.

Oh, sure, it was nice to have his shoes shined every night by some guy who didn't have anything else to do, and who drew a comfortable government salary to do it, but it just seemed unmanly to be fussed over as if he were some sort of nobleman, when in fact his father had been a hardworking homicide detective on the Baltimore city police force, and he'd needed a government scholarship (courtesy of the United States Marine Corps) to get through Boston College without having his mom take a job.