Definitions
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- adjective not possessing qualities befitting a man
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Examples
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Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature, did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be amply shewn, if needful.
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Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous.
Rational Review 2009
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