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Not fitting the picture people have of how a man should be. It is used to criticise a man for crying, for being afraid, for backing away from a fight, for caring about clothes — whatever a particular society has decided men are not supposed to do. The key thing to understand is that the word carries a judgement that comes from outside: it does not describe the man, it describes how others rank him against a rule. It is an old-fashioned word, and today most English speakers use it carefully or not at all, because the idea behind it — that fear or gentleness is a failure in a man — is one many people now reject. So you meet it in three places: in older books, where it is meant seriously; in the mouths of characters we are supposed to disagree with; and in modern writing, often with quotation marks or a hint of irony, when someone is describing that old rule rather than agreeing with it. There is also an adverb use, 'unmanly', though 'in an unmanly way' is far more natural now. If you simply want to say that something does not suit a man, 'unmanly' is not your word — it will sound like you are him.
沒有男子氣概的、不像男人的（帶有舊時代的批評意味）
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unmanlyadj/ʌnˈmænli/
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Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
- 'I do not know which is the worse,' he cried, 'the fraudulent old villain or the unmanly young cub. […]
- He'd be wearing white pants and playing lawn tennis presently if he continued to grow much softer and more unmanly.
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archaicOf or pertaining to something not human.
- And then, it may be, of his wish to roam Repented he, but in his bosom slept The silent thought, nor from his lips did come One word of wail, whilst others sate and wept, And to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept.
- 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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Not acceptable from a man.
- Mr. Coverley was quite brutal: he swore at her with unmanly rage, and seemed scarce able to refrain even from striking her.
- "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.
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Not becoming of a man.
- 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.
- 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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Cowardly, base.
- Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife, Unmanly murder, and unthrifty scath, Bitter despight, with rancours rusty knife, And fretting griefe the enemy of life; All these, and many evils moe haunt ire, The swelling Splene, and Frenzy raging rife, The shaking Palsey, and Saint Fraunces fire: Such one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.
unmanlyadv/ʌnˈmænli/
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In a manner that is unmanly.
- He had acted unmanly, unworthy of a gentleman.
- "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."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。