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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unmanly
adjective
1: not possessing qualities befitting a man [syn: {unmanful}, {unmanlike}] [ant: {manly}]
2: lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: {pusillanimous}, {poor-spirited}]
adverb: without qualities thought to befit a man [syn: {unmanfully}] [ant: {manfully}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "unmanly": afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, effeminate, epicene, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, gutless, henhearted, intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, muliebrous, old-womanish, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, poltroon, prissy, pusillanimous, rabbity, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, spunkless, timid, timorous, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, womanish, yellow
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