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Synonyms for unmanly

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Synonyms for unmanly

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Synonyms for unmanly

not possessing qualities befitting a man

lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution

without qualities thought to befit a man

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The group talk on the film about how these stereotypes can be damaging to both men and women and that, ultimately, talking about how you feel and opening up about metal health is not 'unmanly.' To promote positive role models, members of the group often take peer-support roles, supporting newer members, sharing experiences and 'walking with them' in their recovery.
She undermined and belittled him all night long and relentlessly provoked him, calling him a loser and unmanly. In a previous hearing, the defence team produced in court a consultative forensic doctor who testified that the fingerprints on the victim's mouth were that of the defendant who was trying to stop her from shouting and cursing him.
The court thus entered a minefield where blasts are bound to occur whether one goes ahead or decides to retreat.The SC complains of the PML-N using women as a human shield, calling it unmanly.
These gender stereotypes can be toxic, and damaging to men as well as women, especially in cases like this where a man did not feel able to tell the police about the violence he was enduring, perhaps through fear of seeming weak or unmanly.
President Rouhani also ordered Iran's Supreme National Security Council and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up on this issue with diligence so as to prevent repetition of such "unmanly acts" of terrorism.
ISLAMABAD -- Members of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus in Islamabad strongly condemn the un-parliamentary and unmanly behavior of Shah Farman, the KPK Provincial Minister for Public Health Engineering and prominent member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, towards his fellow lady MPA, Ms.
And it's unmanly. You tie up [your victims] and cover them with plastic?
She called her uncle names and accused him of being a forger, unfair, unmanly, a cheater, among others.
EVIRATE A Tear out the bowels B Render weak or unmanly C Avoid who am I?
Every effort should be made to minimize this risk, but it is mere unmanly folly to try to do away with the sport because the risk exists.
It also suggests a rather unmanly tendency to blame the victim.
"So we argued and insulted his mother and sister and in return he called us unmanly.