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adj. - Not possessing qualities befitting a man adj. - Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution adv. - Without qualities thought to befit a man.

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  • Because he'd have to be a man for a woman but kneeling before her to pleasure her with his tongue in unmanly subservience?
  • I ought to be called unmanly, disgraceful, and a coward, because
  • Despite being called the unmanly 'Care Bear' on the field, Danny has embraced the nickname and has embroidered it on his shoes.
  • It comes to my mind that "unmanly" and "to unman" show the prefix rather clearly in its twosomeness.
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