Meaning of unmanlily | Babel Free

Definitions

In an unmanly manner.

Examples

“At length the ministering mutual friend obtained the consent of the Angersteins that Duval should offer, in person, the best and sincerest proofs of his self-abhorrence, of his repentance, and of his unspeakable admiration of the character and conduct of her whom he had so heinously distressed, and unmanlily assailed.”

“And after having sacrificed all we had “except honor,” in an unequal and (for its atrocities) unparalleled struggle for now three years, we are coolly and unmanlily deprived even of the assistance of our brethren—doomed to utter extermination for the eternal glory of the so-called Christian civilization of the nineteenth century, and for the honor of the nations whose Houses of Commons and legislative bodies will by-and-by overwhelm us with sympathetic expressions from the tribune.”

“Yesterday he very unmanlily exulted over me, on account of your determination to stay.”

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