What's even more striking about these persistent allegations of unmanliness is how entirely, well, unsubtle they've been.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Man up, Harry Reid!' Mama Grizzlies and our manliness recession] Reference

Tschaikowsky speaks straight to the nerves, with that touch of unmanliness which is another characteristic of modern art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

And they may consist with meanness, selfishness, cowardice, and utter unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

We rightly ascribe this sort of contentment to mere unmanliness and want of spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

Winkie, who had been brought up to believe that tears were the depth of unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

The feeling of unmanliness in his own position tortured him into a mood of perversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

If peeing sitting down is some sort of example of unmanliness, then what exactly is unmanliness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man:] Reference

Monty says snidely, and Mr. Edwards blushes, aware of the unmanliness of his domestic performance. 29.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference

And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own unmanliness. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

She showed a readiness to weep afresh, which steadied Wee Willie Winkie, who had been brought up to believe that tears were the depth of unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

One blogger made the Mobius-strip-like argument that if today's men were truly manly they wouldn't be scared away from reading by its reputation for unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Men Don't Read Books: Salon Writer Laura Miller Responds To Jason Pinter's HuffPost Blog] Reference

Does not, for example, the worship of material luxury and wealth, which constitutes so large a portion of the 'spirit' of our age, make somewhat for effeminacy and unmanliness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

The unmanliness of his tone was so dreadful a disillusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference

This is faint-heartedness and cowardice, ignobleness and unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians] Reference

"Forgive my unmanliness," he said; "it was kind of you to come to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Things Being Equal] Reference

"Listen, Miss," he went on hurriedly, as if to cover up his momentary unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference

Indeed, in that sensitiveness of mine you have the starting-point of my unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Fancies] Reference

But to-day I taunted my soul with its unmanliness till it rose in rebellion against me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Fancies] Reference

Let those who rebuke the unmanliness of Cicero's wailings remember what were his sufferings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference

I believed you despised me for my unmanliness, and I wanted to win you as a woman by being a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger] Reference

With an expletive upon my unmanliness, I touched the nag with my heel, and whistled encouragingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference

It is hard to understand the utter unmanliness and heartlessness of Romney's conduct in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference

Whatever may be my vanity, or self-seeking, or unmanliness if you will, is not what I say God's truth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Man's Love] Reference

Ian 25, however, cut through all the unmanliness and proved his mettle with this arachnophilic anecdote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

It has regulated my acts when to have committed them as I contemplated would have been base unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point]

The "other fat one" has waded into the GOP vacuum created, most recently, by the unmanliness of Michael Steele.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]] Reference

Nay, they make their profession ridiculous, and are charged by outsiders with unmanliness and instability of purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

Even a mother with her son can help him to be a man much more truly if she stops worrying about and resisting his unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nerves and Common Sense] Reference

On this account a skilful person must be employed; and, to hide the unmanliness of his own people, a prince must perform the ceremony in this imperfect manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Old Japan] Reference

Some such influence as that which would be furnished by the Bill would do more than anything else to counteract this softness and unmanliness which are becoming apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Weak Link in the Imperial Chain] Reference

He pitched the motive low, to absolve him from unmanliness, and was a little disconcerted when his father looked at him right through, heaved an important sigh, and answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

"Does that excuse your unmanliness, your -- you might have killed her, you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

The perversity of the right’s hatred for Clinton can probably be explained by their hatred of this “unmanliness” in his character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Jonesing for Bubba] Reference

For the unfaithfulness, for the wrath, for the unmanliness, for the tyranny with which I treated you, my soul upbraids me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference

If so, made such by your unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macaria] Reference

This playfulness was not unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uniter and Liberator of America] Reference