manliness
Example Sentences
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Wellness as practiced and performed by Kennedy is certainly curated to project manliness.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The problem, as a trio of newish shows suggests, is that the old scripts for proving one’s vaunted manliness no longer function the way they once did—if they ever did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Presumably, we're meant to believe his elaborate combover and spray tan would have created a manliness force field that repelled all floating objects.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2023
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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