See unmanly on Wiktionary
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"text": "And then, it may be, of his wish to roam\nRepented he, but in his bosom slept\nThe silent thought, nor from his lips did come\nOne word of wail, whilst others sate and wept,\nAnd to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept.",
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"ref": "1902, J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird:",
"text": "I had bought a toy in the street for my own amusement. It represented a woman, a young mother, flinging her little son over her head with one hand and catching him in the other ... The unmanly chuckle always came, I found, when the poor lady dropped her babe, […]",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
"text": "Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;\nAbhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife,\nUnmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,\nBitter despight, with rancours rusty knife,\nAnd fretting griefe the enemy of life;\nAll these, and many evils moe haunt ire,\nThe swelling Splene, and Frenzy raging rife,\nThe shaking Palsey, and Saint Fraunces fire:\nSuch one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.",
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"ref": "1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie:",
"text": "But when, instead of an impotent and unmanly struggle for existence, he found that his friend had forborne, with the customary and dignified submission of an Indian warrior, until an opportunity had offered to escape, and that he had then manifested the spirit and decision of the most gifted brave, his gratification became nearly too powerful to be concealed.",
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"ref": "1883, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms:",
"text": "When they've got nobody but themselves to think of it don't so much matter as I know of; but to keep on breaking the hearts of those as never did you anything but good, and wouldn't if they lived for a hundred years, is cowardly and unmanly any way you look at it.",
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"ref": "1902, James Allen, As a Man Thinketh:",
"text": "Such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and acting out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.",
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"ref": "1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix:",
"text": "He did not know which was more painful to witness: Hempel's unmanly cringing, or the air of fatuous satisfaction that succeeded it.",
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"ref": "1886, Jerome K. Jerome, “On Babies”, in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:",
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"ref": "1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:",
"text": "Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn’t quite forgive yet.",
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"ref": "1899 November, Stephen Crane, “\"Showin' Off\"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 99, number 594:",
"text": "First, the more robust boys considered talking with girls an unmanly occupation; second, the greater part of the boys were afraid; third, they had no idea of what to say, because they esteemed the proper sentences should be supernaturally incisive and eloquent.",
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"ref": "1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World:",
"text": "Many voteless women regard a vote as unwomanly. Nobody says that most voteless men regarded a vote as unmanly. Nobody says that any voteless men regarded it as unmanly.",
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"text": "\"That means that we shan't quarrel if I agree to whatever you are going to propose. What is it you want to say?\" he asked, becoming grave in his turn. \"Is it that I have behaved unmanly in visiting your room in your absence? Why cavil about a little thing of that sort? I do this for you as I would for Dora.\"",
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"text": "And then, it may be, of his wish to roam\nRepented he, but in his bosom slept\nThe silent thought, nor from his lips did come\nOne word of wail, whilst others sate and wept,\nAnd to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept.",
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{
"ref": "1902, J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird:",
"text": "I had bought a toy in the street for my own amusement. It represented a woman, a young mother, flinging her little son over her head with one hand and catching him in the other ... The unmanly chuckle always came, I found, when the poor lady dropped her babe, […]",
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"Of or pertaining to something not human."
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
"text": "Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;\nAbhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife,\nUnmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,\nBitter despight, with rancours rusty knife,\nAnd fretting griefe the enemy of life;\nAll these, and many evils moe haunt ire,\nThe swelling Splene, and Frenzy raging rife,\nThe shaking Palsey, and Saint Fraunces fire:\nSuch one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie:",
"text": "But when, instead of an impotent and unmanly struggle for existence, he found that his friend had forborne, with the customary and dignified submission of an Indian warrior, until an opportunity had offered to escape, and that he had then manifested the spirit and decision of the most gifted brave, his gratification became nearly too powerful to be concealed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1883, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms:",
"text": "When they've got nobody but themselves to think of it don't so much matter as I know of; but to keep on breaking the hearts of those as never did you anything but good, and wouldn't if they lived for a hundred years, is cowardly and unmanly any way you look at it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1902, James Allen, As a Man Thinketh:",
"text": "Such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and acting out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix:",
"text": "He did not know which was more painful to witness: Hempel's unmanly cringing, or the air of fatuous satisfaction that succeeded it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Cowardly, base."
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"(of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base."
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"ref": "1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World:",
"text": "Mr. Coverley was quite brutal: he swore at her with unmanly rage, and seemed scarce able to refrain even from striking her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Jerome K. Jerome, “On Babies”, in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:",
"text": "\"Lor’, sir, you wouldn’t have ’em in short clothes, poor little dears?\" And she said it in a tone that seemed to imply I had suggested some unmanly outrage.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not acceptable from a man."
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"man",
"man"
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"(of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable from a man."
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:",
"text": "Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn’t quite forgive yet.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1899 November, Stephen Crane, “\"Showin' Off\"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 99, number 594:",
"text": "First, the more robust boys considered talking with girls an unmanly occupation; second, the greater part of the boys were afraid; third, they had no idea of what to say, because they esteemed the proper sentences should be supernaturally incisive and eloquent.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World:",
"text": "Many voteless women regard a vote as unwomanly. Nobody says that most voteless men regarded a vote as unmanly. Nobody says that any voteless men regarded it as unmanly.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not becoming of a man."
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"(of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nemǎžestven",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "немъжествен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "onmannelijk"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "epämiehekäs"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "efféminé"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "aramamaḳacuri",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "არამამაკაცური"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "araḳacuri",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "არაკაცური"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ánandros",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "ἄνανδρος"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "mífhearúil"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(of a person) not manly: immature, effeminate or cowardly, etc.",
"word": "omanlig"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "strahliv",
"sense": "(of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.",
"word": "страхлив"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.",
"word": "lâche"
}
],
"word": "unmanly"
}
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"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English terms prefixed with un- (negative)",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
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"form": "more unmanly",
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]
},
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"tags": [
"superlative"
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{
"word": "unwomanly"
}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1878, The Christian Monitor, volume 17, page 298:",
"text": "He had acted unmanly, unworthy of a gentleman.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1900, Pauline Hopkins, Contending forces : a romance illustrative of negro life north and south:",
"text": "\"That means that we shan't quarrel if I agree to whatever you are going to propose. What is it you want to say?\" he asked, becoming grave in his turn. \"Is it that I have behaved unmanly in visiting your room in your absence? Why cavil about a little thing of that sort? I do this for you as I would for Dora.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Jeff C. Davis Riddle, The Indian history of the Modoc war, and the causes that led to it:",
"text": "A Yankee who had not \"acclimated\" well but had retained his native habit of \"arguing\" things, came to Riddle's one day, and after some talk about a stray horse, intimated that Mr. Riddle had behaved unmanly in the matter. Wi-ne-ma taking in the situation, pitched into Mr. Yank, and before he knew it, his head was bleeding profusely and a strong hand was grasping his throat. He fought back as best he could, but the poor little Yank was in the hands of an enraged Modoc woman, who was pelting him in the face, saying between her licks, \"I'll learn you how you talk about my man.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"In a manner that is unmanly."
]
}
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in a manner that is unmanly",
"word": "epämiehekkäästi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in a manner that is unmanly",
"word": "omanligt"
}
],
"word": "unmanly"
}
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