Because he'd have to be a man for a woman but kneeling before her to pleasure her with his tongue in unmanly subservience?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
I ought to be called unmanly, disgraceful, and a coward, because. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Despite being called the unmanly 'Care Bear' on the field, Danny has embraced the nickname and has embroidered it on his shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
It comes to my mind that "unmanly" and "to unman" show the prefix rather clearly in its twosomeness. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
Briggs gathered his friends to build a high-powered cannon rocketing cans of MBL at "unmanly" objects. From Wordnik.com. [Myers Media Innovation and Creativity Awards: Bronze Agency Winners] Reference
Let this suffice to palliate my 'unmanly' pleading. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria] Reference
He could neither sing sport "unmanly" and tried to rewrite. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world] Reference
Mike Castle, "unmanly" and said he should get his "man pants on.". From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the sport "unmanly" and tried to rewrite. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world] Reference
Christine O'Donnell told opponent Mike Castle he was being "unmanly," adding, "Mike, this is not a bake-off -- get your man-pants on.". From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
'unmanly' in a chap admitting he is finding it hard to cope. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Christine O'Donnell called her Delaware Senate primary opponent Mike Castle "unmanly" with the infamous line "This is not a bake-off. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Billings-Yun: Men Up, Grizzlies Down] Reference
Americans are "unmanly" ” and so, therefore, are those (notably the ruling Saudi family) who align with them or accept their protection. From Wordnik.com. [America and the War] Reference
Nor do I think it unmanly to withdraw from such plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
The conduct of these spectators I regard as being monstrous and unmanly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
I should be sorry to hold so selfish, idle, and unmanly a doctrine as that. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
These troubles did not come all at once and I thought it unmanly to heed them. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Lulled by lovely visions, the weak one yielded to unmanly hopes, unmanly fears!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Greece, where he passed his time in the most unmanly wailings and gloomy forebodings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Do not be so weak, or so unmanly, or so vain, as to be ashamed of being known to read. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
Most unmanly of Silvestro, all this; but the rogue he petted was too snug to consider it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I answered him that I did not think he would do such an unmanly thing, at least right then. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
When carried to this culpable extent, it becomes an instance of weak and unmanly cowardice. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
They love truth, and honesty, and consistency, and abhor everything like sneaking, unmanly pietism?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The truth is, that no man can do an unmanly thing without inflicting an injury on the whole human race. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Gossip is to be avoided because it is vicious, self-destructive, unmanly, unmilitary and, most of the time, untrue. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
I fought against my passion, which I told myself was unmanly, since it was not returned in the good, old-fashioned way. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Probably I was mistaken, as I concluded he had discarded the latter when he entered the Service as an unmanly appendage. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Both are mean, both are unmanly, and both are deficient in the self-respect necessary to the constitution of a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
He has a notion that it's unmanly and weak; so that when Stanley did speak he assumed a gruffness he was far from feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
If they had passed that law, let alone the amendment, these days, we would never reverse position because it would seem unmanly. From Wordnik.com. [Cenk Uygur: Imagine if We Never Ended the War on Alcohol] Reference
Discontent, to be sure, is as unmanly as it is unwomanly; but I fear it is an ill more widely spread among girls than among boys. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
He had the feeling that he had allowed himself to be tricked into the commission of an unmanly act, and he was thoroughly ashamed of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.