Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not manlike.
- Unsuitable to a man, as opposed to a woman or child; effeminate; childish.
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- adjective Not
manlike .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not possessing qualities befitting a man
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even after all these years, still one of the most convincely unmanlike aliens in the literature.
MIND MELD: Who are the Most Memorable Characters in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror? 2008
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I can undetstand how some “unmanlike” toilet behavior would compromise some important developmental opportunities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man: 2009
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It went on to find that the child possessed unreasonable fears for his age, and had unmanlike toilet behavior.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man: 2009
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It went on to find that the child possessed unreasonable fears for his age, and had “unmanlike” toilet behavior.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man: 2009
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For the said dale, which hight the Black Valley of the Greywethers, hath a bad name for the haunting of unmanlike wights, against which even our men-at-arms might make no defence.
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For he that is angry seems with a kind of grief and close contraction of himself, to turn away from reason; but he that sins through lust, being overcome by pleasure, doth in his very sin bewray a more impotent, and unmanlike disposition.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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I knew it was a woman from the bungling, unmanlike way that pistol was laid in the dead hand; the only question I had to answer was _which_ woman -- Fifi, Lady Stavornell, or this wretched little hypocrite.
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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Speech so foreign to her ears, unnatural in tone, unmanlike even for a lover
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Speech so foreign to her ears, unnatural in tone, unmanlike even for a lover
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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For the said dale, which hight the Black Valley of the Greywethers, hath a bad name for the haunting of unmanlike wights, against which even our men-at-arms might make no defence.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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