manly
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The symbolism whacks you like a 90-pound dumbbell: Being more manly solves everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The Miramar Military Academy — first operating on the Venice waterfront and then in Redondo Beach — advertised itself as “an ideal school for manly boys.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Trying to look manly and tough when your entire regime, from the top on down, consists of shifty characters with a wide range of obvious personality disorders might seem like a categorical error.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Mr. Powell radiates such manly American likability that it’s bizarrely out of character for him to play this ruthless schemer, even as an impish chancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
My mother followed right behind the pastor, accompanying his rhythmic prayer with hallelujah whispers, and my father’s manly but, I guess, godly grunts, all eventually—finally—leading to an amen.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
This virile display is apparently part of a sub-trend in gender reveal nation: making the parties manlier.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2018
Sitters would often use the opportunity as a sort of wish fulfilment, posing as someone wealthier, manlier, more interesting.
From Economist ● Aug. 17, 2017
After all, they don't come much manlier than Manchester United Methuselah Ryan Giggs and he's hawking a yoga DVD.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2011
He would probably consider being alive manlier and less humiliating than being dead, right?
From Slate
Yes!" he cried warmly, "it is a shame that I should be forced to wear these loathsome garments when self-respect urges me to assume a manlier garb.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
“We have to be the manliest of men,” Tipton said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2020
A City Hall staffer told Mosby many were stunned because “I was the manliest man anyone had met in their lives.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2019
Myth, rather than history, elided her decisive character in favor of Jason Robards as executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, the manliest man around.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2017
The “Kiss” video confirmed it: slim and made-up, this singer was challenging our limited sense of “man,” yet he was the manliest thing I’d ever seen—in an asymmetrical half-top.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2016
“Bear with me. This is going to be the manliest thing you’ve ever heard.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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